How to clean your keyboard

How To Clean your Keyboard

We all work with computers all day long and the component mostly brought into use, especially for typing, is our keyboard. But a lot of dust and grime build up on them, in between the keys and around the keyboard in general. Cleaning your keyboard is fast and easy, and it prolongs your keyboard’s life.

All you need to clean your keyboard is a lint free cloth, a duster, cotton buds, a non-harmful cleanser and a vacuum cleaner or a can of compressed air.

To start off, ensure your computer is shut down and the keyboard is unplugged. Flip it upside down to loosen all the large dirt particles to fall free. The easiest way to achieve this is pressing the keys while holding it upside down. Use the compressed air to blow any other debris stuck between the keys, and the vacuum cleaner to suck out the remaining dirt.

Follow this up with cotton buds, dipping them slightly into the cleanser, and wiping in between the keyboard keys to clean the sides. Note that the best cleansers to use are usually the ones that contain isopropyl alcohol, or specially made cleansing fluids. After cleaning in between the keys, use the slightly dampened lint free wipes or cloth to clean the rest of the keyboard surface by wiping it. At last, dust to add the finishing touch to your keyboard.

Sometimes, especially if your keyboard is in a constant use, this method is not enough to clean it. Therefore, other methods can be applied by using a flat tipped object like a flat tip screw driver to remove dirt. But this requires patience. Start off by unplugging your keyboard and then make a note of exactly how your keys run since a keyboard doesn’t run on the all known ABC alphabet but rather on the QWERTY alphabet.

Next, using the flat tipped object, remove the keys one by one. The keys are rather easy to remove, except for your larger keys like the spacebar, which is not only difficult to remove but also tough to fit in to its original place. Try and avoid removing large keys. After removing all the keys, wash them properly, one by one, to remove all the dirt and grime from them. Dry properly and leave them in a well ventilated place for a while before placing them back in to your keyboard, making sure they click back properly. Give your keyboard one final wipe when done, and your keyboard will look as good as new.

A Computer Guy

How To Clean your Keyboard