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I have seen many CPU heat sinks totally loaded with "dust bunnies." Of course, by that time, it has generally been a "port mortum" to see why the computer died! 
It is especially important if you locate your CPU on the floor, to pop the case and blow out all of the dust on a regular basis. Yearly is NOT too often! My personal computers at home get cleanned out on a six month rotation...
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However it is more frequently if there is a bottle of Windex in the same room.
John
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I am one of the people who need to clean the mouse weekly (track ball helped). I clean my key board every month or so. The computer we take outside and wear masks and safety glasses to blow the dust bunnies out every year or two. 
Forgot to say when I clean the monitors is when I point to something and the dust falls off.
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This survey reminds me of a high school science experiment I did a long time ago. We were tasked with taking cultures of everyday objects and seeing if we could get anything to grow on an agar dish. Our team took swabs from a urinal, car tires, lockers and a teachers keyboard. After two weeks in a warm dark environment, the culture from the teachers keyboard had twice as much 'stuff' growing on it than anything else! The next was the culture from the lockers, then the tires, and the urinal was the cleanest.
"It's like the sixties, but with less hope."
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Karl Sanford wrote: urinal was the cleanest
 
Thanks.
John
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my wife does all the cleaning?
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how lazy u r
Regards,
unruledboy_at_gmail_dot_com
http://www.xnlab.com
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Whenever I spill my coffee and it gets into the keyboard.
It's really only a token gesture, making the keyboard comfortable as its keys stop working one-by-one.
Fortunately, I am right-handed, so it only disables the less-important keys, such as those on the keypad and ENTER.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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can i use your last tagline please? it's so funny
Regards,
Jason Pezzimenti.
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Help yourself - please! I need all the positive reinforcement I can get.*
*Long Delay In Reply Because I went to Jamaica to get rid of my tan lines.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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Never Ever!
They will be exchanged every 6 month.
Monitor are cleaned regularely, at least once a week.
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Does turning the keyboard upside down and banging it on the desk count as a clean?
The monitor on the other hand gets a wipe every now and then. I hate people who poke the screen and point out someting, bloody fingerprints on the monitor  .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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My keyboard is about 5 -> 6 years old...
Last time the spacebar fell out, a tentacle shot out, and pulled it back in 
So yea - I havn't cleaned by keyboard... ever...
-= Reelix =-
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I hate it when the enter key gets all squishy, you just know there is something ugly under there. I usually retire the keyboard about then by declaring it a bio hazard.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'd retire my keyboard, except it's the best Guitar Hero 3 keyboard ever - Works with all the keys, and good to play!
Granted, I COULD pay $150 for the little guitar, but that's totally besides the point
-= Reelix =-
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This is a "standard clean". A "Full service clean" is additional some rubbing with a wet cleenex. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I hate it when people .... hate that I touch the screen!!!
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I hate people who poke the screen and point out someting, bloody fingerprints on the monitor
You'd despise me. I'm debugging a touch-screen application on one of these[^].
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yep you should use a pen to interact with the touch screen, and if you are a pen chewer Ihave some tiny halapenos that will cure that.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Jalapeños are for weaklings.
Real men (and women, apparently), eat ghost chilli (and the really insane rub their eyes with the stuff).
I=I.am()?Code(I) /0;
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: bloody fingerprints
Yeah, that's what someone should invent--nanotube projections on the monitor so that if you poke the screen, these razor sharp invisible projections make your fingers bleed. Probably the first practical use of nanotubes!
Marc
Will work for food.
Interacx
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
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Marc Clifton wrote: razor sharp invisible projections
I like it, although I think I will make up a watermark type graphic that can be used as background to controls "Touch me and BLEED", stick on forms and list controls.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If their fingerprints are bloody, maybe you might want to consider freaking out about something other than the monitor.
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omg me too! my friend was recently over who doesnt even have a computer and he POKED THE SCREEN (It's an LCD) and i was like WHAT THE (*&^ are you doing? you'lll break the thing lol... and he was like "i just wanted to see if it would make one of those circular rainbow colours on the screen if i poked it"... arg!
Regards,
Jason Pezzimenti.
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