Cleaning a laptop screen correctly–or any screen for that matter–is an important thing to understand. If you don’t, you could potentially damage the screen and leave scratches on it that are impossible to get out. Cleaning a laptop screen properly is not difficult. It just requires the right material to ensure that you leave the screen looking clean, not damaged.
Cleaning a Laptop Screen
To begin with, get the right cloth to clean your screen. You want a 100%-cotton cloth that is soft and absorbent. A t-shirt is a good cloth, but so is a sock or a Turkish towel. You want 100%-cotton. Stay away from cloth that has polyester in it because this can contain stiff filaments. These filaments can scratch the screen while you are rubbing over it.
Stay away from paper towel and tissues. While it might feel soft, remember that it is paper and therefore, it comes from wood. This means that there might be microscopic wood fragments in the paper towel that will scratch your screen if you move it over it. Therefore, avoid anything paper and instead, focus on the cotton.
Purchase isopropyl alcohol that is 91% alcohol and 9% distilled water. The reason you want this mixture is because alcohol evaporates so quickly. More importantly, it doesn’t leave any residue behind, so the screen will be cleaned without there being any streaks or marks left. You can buy this at your local pharmacy–it’s used for cleaning wounds.
Take the alcohol and put enough on the cloth to have it be slightly moist. You don’t want to spray directly onto the screen because that will scratch it. You also don’t want to try and clean the screen without some sort of liquid because the dust particle, as it is moved across the screen, will scratch. So, just put the alcohol on the cloth.
Once it is on the cloth, wipe in a counter clockwise direction. You’ll remove all of the dust and the liquid that is on the screen will evaporate very quickly. Then, the screen will be clean and scratch free.
