Clean your keyboard

[edutilos-]

Once every year or 2 years, try to remove all the keys from you computer keyboard and vacuum/wipe the dirty stuff that accumulated underneath. Then wipe the keys clean and put them back. The keyboard frame where you rest your wrists need to be cleaned of the sweat stains. It is a thin patina - when you rub it with a wet cloth, the dirt is visible.

Before you remove the keys, photo the keyboard layout or make a simple handwritten pencil copy of the layout. It will help to identify where to replace the keys after cleaning.

That's way too seldom.

I make sure I clear the debris every month at the very least. You'd be surprised how much nonsense goes inside there.

 

[edutilos-]

I've got lots of food in my keyboard such that when I came back from holidays, I was wondering why there were so many ants coming out of my laptop.
Killed them and more came out, so I opened up the laptop... and I found........

Whoa what the heck is that? Ant's nest?

 

[ricohflex]

2012 mutation of 2003 SARS virus?

By the way, this is how infection is spread at Internet cafes if you are unlucky to pick one setup where the keyboard is dirty and previously used by someone with serious disease, maybe got their drippings or whatever bodily waste particles left behind.

 

[SkyStrike]

Once I started a new job and inherited the PC from someone whom I replaced.

There were a lot of hairs in between the keys which were gluey and sticky.

Later I found out that she was a lady.

Next day I brought my own keyboard and replaced it.

I'm a gambler who believes that the wrong type of hairs can bring you bad luck.

I brought my own keyboard to office..

Whoa what the heck is that? Ant's nest?

Looks like eggs to me...

 

[Sion]

Looks like eggs to me...

How adamadam's eggs got inside keyboard?

What sites he has been to?

 

[Sion]

2012 mutation of 2003 SARS virus?

By the way, this is how infection is spread at Internet cafes if you are unlucky to pick one setup where the keyboard is dirty and previously used by someone with serious disease, maybe got their drippings or whatever bodily waste particles left behind.

Use rubber gloves.

 

[Fudgecakes]

How adamadam's eggs got inside keyboard?

What sites he has been to?

Wait, how does adamadam even have eggs? :O

 

[Sion]

Wait, how does adamadam even have eggs? :O

That's because he has a chicken. :bsmilie:

 

[phoeniix]

or...just buy a new keyboard...? (i use laptops. keyboards always with keypad protector...just wash the protector can already

Usually avoid doing so. Seems to trap more heat for my lappy somehow ..

 

[Fudgecakes]

That's because he has a chicken. :bsmilie:

Rooster lays eggs? Woah.... Haha

 

[adamadam]

Whoa what the heck is that? Ant's nest?

Yeh... a nest inside the laptop.
This is at the bottom left of the LCD screen.

I was wondering why ants kept coming out!!!!
After this, no more!

 

[Sion]

This may be the best protection?

 

[Sion]

For those who eat and drink in front of their PC:

 

[Sgdevilzz]

For those who eat and drink in front of their PC:

What a sticky situation! Imagine if you get too engrossed in reading the books and the computer that you forgot about the transparent tray, trying to grab the sandwich but flips the whole tray. That would actually happen