Monitor Maintenance

[willw9]

What is the best way to clean my monitor (Samsung 204T)? I have a few random smudges on it. One is actually from some juice from my apple hitting the screen, and me being a genious and just wiping it with some toilet paper. That was like 6 months ago. Any chance this will come out?

[kerowo]

Pretty much any office supply or big computer store is going to have monitor cleaner, some will have kits that are like little handi-wipe packets. Try them.

[SamIAm]

Careful.

[greenage]

I just used lens-cleaning wipes (meant for glasses) on my LCD monitor and it worked great. Got all of the stains off, was streak free and dried quickly.

[SamIAm]

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I just used lens-cleaning wipes (meant for glasses) on my LCD monitor and it worked great. Got all of the stains off, was streak free and dried quickly.

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Ammonia will etch an lcd over time, won't it? It'd obviously be fine for glass(es) though, so I'm not sure that glasses-safe = lcd-safe.

[greenage]

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I just used lens-cleaning wipes (meant for glasses) on my LCD monitor and it worked great. Got all of the stains off, was streak free and dried quickly.

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Ammonia will etch an lcd over time, won't it? It'd obviously be fine for glass(es) though, so I'm not sure that glasses-safe = lcd-safe.

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The lens-cleaning wipes do not contain ammonia, they contain isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol).

I looked it up on Wikipedia and here is an excerpt from the Use section of the article:

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It is also used to clean LCD and glass computer monitor screens (at some risk to the anti-reflection coating of the screen), and used by ...


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I’m no expert, but if you don’t use it too often, it seems like it should be OK.

Wikipedia article

[Josem]

The wikipedia article on LCDs links to this guide: http://www.yepeoo.com/lcd-clean-p.html on how to clean LCDs.