Hello, I was wondering how would I clean a laptop CPU that has thermal paste around the green part of the CPU. This is an example of how the thermal paste is surrounding the CPU: http://www.macdevcenter.com/2006/05/23/graphics/inside7.jpg
70-99% alcohol(from the drug store or even grocery store) and qtips.
Take your time and remember some left over should not hurt anything. Do the best you can and do not knock little parts off(little surface mount parts).