Thursday, May 1, 2008

Cleaning Your Keyboard

An article on the BBC  say that keyboards are dirtier than toilets! Also, apparently women are 3 to 4 times more likely to have a dirtier work space as compared with men. 

This is rather worrying statistic here; I have a Wireless key
board which I can see is slowly, but surely collecting more and more gunk. It really looks nasty. So, taking heed of this article, I decide to spring clean my keyboard. 

There are a few ways you can do this, buy a can of compressed air or use a vacuum cleaner to get rid of all that nasties! Spray away (or vacuum) the keyboard and you should have a fairly clean keyboard.

If like me, you want to do a complete overhaul, then you 
have to do it the hard, and arduous way. I admit, it's a little (?) tedious, but it's worth the effort. Especially when you read that there are dirty germs like E.coli and Staph bacteria. Yuck. 

So, you have to manually remove each key. Make sure you place them in order, if not you'd be in for a ride, trying to figure out which sits where. Trust me, this is not a jigsaw puzzle you want to be playing. 

Once that is done, you can either use alcohol wipes or compressed gas and clean that sucker out! 



1 comment:

Yesha Gee said...

After reading your blog, i checked my keyboard and found out it's soooo dirty. hehehe

anyway, just visiting! Nice blog... hope to see you around. *blog hop*

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