What to clean the truelife display

What would you use to clean these lovely glossy screens? I just don't want to damage them. Can i put windex on a papertowel and wipe?

Thanks!
Nick

 

I recommend using an LCD specific cleaner, like PixelClean or similar products. Dell recommends using either water or an LCD display cleaner.

 

Yeah, I use PixelClean for my high-gloss screen - works great.

http://www.pixelclean.com

 

I ordered the PixelClean for my 1705 TruLife screen. My question is, will the screen be damaged by using a water-moistened cloth? I saw a smudge and out of habit, moistened my fingertip with saliva and rubbed it. Will saliva damage the TruLife screen? Thanks for your help.

 

Something like windex might degrade the screen with all those chemicals.

Anyway, I use an eyeglass cloth. I just breath a little on my screen and wipe it with the cloth. Dust and stray marks come right off and nothing is left behind.

 

If your going to use water you should probably use distilled water, regular tap water is full of garbage like minerals, calcium, lime and in some places worse things.

If you just let the crud build up enough on your screen you can eventualy just peel it off like skinning an onion.

 

Ive found the best thing for my e1505 screen so far is a trusty can of compressed air... I find that what gets on my screen is dust... and how the screen really gets dirty is me handlilng the screen to get rid of the dust.

So I just dont touch it... and spray it down with compressed air when i notice dust buildup.

 

Alchemist,
Do you think just any can of compressed air is fine, or do you recommend a specific type of air like air collected and canned from France or something is better than just generic air?

That reminds me of a funny story.

I was helping a friend of mine who is a refrigeration technician fix his PC once and his keyboard was so full of dust and garbage that you had to litterally slam the keys to get them to go down. He had a bottle of compressed nitrogen that he offered up to me to blow his key board out with. That stuff was under such hi pressure I didn't just blow the dust out, but blew all the keys off his keyboard.

I knew where the QWERTY keys went, but it's just one of those things, your fingers know where the rest of the keys are on a keyboard, but when it comes time to actually think about it you'd be suprised how hard it was for me at least to figure out where the proper place for all the keys were. I didn't get it right at least the first 3 times.

A can of compressed air though is a must have item. I don't think myself it matters where the air gets "bottled" at, but then again, bottled water is bottled water to me. It's better than something to just use to clean your screen with or your keyboard (low enough pressure to not blow the keys off too). It's great for blowing dust off your heat sinks and out of your fans which really helps system longevity, reliability and performance, a hot system that's blanketed with dust and can't dissapate the heat is going to run noticeably slower.

 

a quick question about compressed air and laptops. is it safe to blow that stuff strait into a vent without haveing the laptop appart? or what would be the best way to clean a laptop. thanks

 

If you blow in and see dust coming out, your doing some good, that's dust coming out that was otherwise inside there. It's best though if you want to do it right to open the thing up and get all of it out of there. I like to do that at least once a year, but I live in a desert where it's dry and dusty by nature and the type of thing you have to do. If you see dust in the vents try using a toothpick or something to dig out what you can see, then blow, that way you aren't blowing in more dust at least, the worse your going to do then is at least get some of it out if your not comfortable taking your laptop apart.

Another option is to just take it into a local shop maybe once a year and pay them probably about $50 to just open it up and blow the dust out for you. Electronic components hate heat and love cold, and just think about it, all that dust covering your components acts like a wool blanket insulating all that heat in they're trying to dissapate.

 

thanks, did you happen to notice where i live. im in the desert too. hooray dessert ... i mean desert

 

I didn't even notice that! Yea, you know dust! You know dust and heat.

I lived in Phoenix 20 years before I moved up to Northern Nevada about 2 years ago. Well actually Chandler, AZ for most those years there. I was a Sys Admin for Visa there in Tempe a long time right across from the Cardinals training camp.

You defineatley have a dust and heat concern.

I miss having not one but 2 Fry's Electronics right there, I miss that more than anything.

 

ya those frys are nice. why did you move to nevada?