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| How to Clean an LCD Screen – How to Clean Easy |
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| How to Clean an LCD Screen |
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| Whether it’s on your television or your computer monitor, having an LCD screen can not only save a lot of space but it can also provide you with rich colors, high definition graphics, a reduced energy cost, and a sleek and stylish look that you just can’t get with a standard television or CRT monitor. Unfortunately, those advantages come with a price; when your LCD screen gets dirty you have to be very careful how you go about cleaning it. If you aren’t, then your quest for a clean LCD screen might end up giving you scratches or dead pixels.
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| Luckily, the tools that you need to help you get a clean LCD screen are rather easy to come by. While there are a variety of LCD screen cleaners on the market today, you can actually make your own that will work just as well for a fraction of the cost of those small bottles. All that you’ll need is some isopropyl alcohol, the same as you’d buy for your first aid kit, and some distilled water. Cheap 70% isopropyl will work fine, and just so long as the water that you use is distilled it doesn’t really matter what kind it is. Just make sure that you don’t use tap water or mineral water, as the minerals that are dissolved in the water will more than likely leave visible white streaks on your monitor after it’s dry.
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| To make your cleaning solution, all that you’ll need to do is mix the water and the alcohol in an approximately 50/50 mixture. You can then pour this into an empty spray bottle (making sure that the bottle is clean; you can generally buy brand new bottles in the housewares section of most department stores for cheap) and you’ve got as much cleaner as you’ll need for months if not longer. Just remember that you’re not going to want to spray this directly on your monitor or television… instead of a clean LCD screen, you might end up with a broken one if you do that.
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| Instead, choose a piece of microfiber cloth and spray your cleaning solution onto it. You can generally find microfiber screen wipes at most stores that sell electronic supplies, or you may have a variety of microfiber materials around your house. A cheap and easy solution to this is to use dryer sheets that have been through the dryer at least 2 or 3 times… making sure that any fabric softener that they had on them has been removed by the various dryer cycles. Regardless of the material that you use, you should spray it a few times to make sure that it is slightly damp before you clean the LCD screen.
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| Make sure that the television or monitor has been turned off, and then gently wipe your slightly damp cloth over it. Allow the liquid cleaner to dry completely before you turn it back on again, and then sit back and enjoy your now-clean LCD screen.
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| Thank you to Julie-Ann Amos for this “How to clean an LCD Screen” article.
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