Tips for cleaning your keyboard

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Turn off the computer and remove the keyboard from the main unit.

Put an old newspaper in place, turn the keyboard face down, and pat and shake it. Dust, cookie crumbs, coffee grounds, hair strands, etc. hidden inside the keyboard fall off.

2Use a hair dryer

Turn off your computer, point a hair dryer at the cracks in your keyboard keys, blow off the debris that's attached to them, and then turn the keyboard face down again and shake and pat it.

3 with a specialized cleaner

There is a keyboard cleaning clay on the market, put on the keyboard can stick to the dirty things, cleaning up so easy!

4 with a sticky note

Use a sticky note with the sticky side of the keyboard to stick the dust of the crevices of the keyboard, the way is very simple, but the cleaning is not thorough enough.

5 Thorough cleaning

If you want to give your keyboard a thorough cleaning, you'll have to remove the caps from each key.

Ordinary keyboards have removable keycap sections, so you can pry them off with a small screwdriver or a hollowing spoon, one by one in the order of going from the corner sections of the keyboard area to the middle section; larger keycaps such as the spacebar and enter are harder to return to their original positions, so try not to remove them.

To avoid forgetting the location of these keycaps, it's best to take a picture of the keyboard layout with your camera or draw a sketch first. After removing the keycaps, you can soak them in a detergent or disinfectant solution and carefully scrub the keyboard base with a flannel or disinfectant tissue.