Whats the best way to clean a pricey LCD monitor?

Okay so nothin technichal here as you can see I just want advice on how to SAFELY remove all the misterious fingerprint smudges, streaks and dirt off my high range 19" LCD monitor, cause they're starting to anoy me! thanks in advance for any advice.

most comp stores will have special wipes or special cleaning stuff. best to use those as most are anti streak and anti static. water doens't evaporate completely and so you get annoying streaks.

Okay ill check out my local computer store. One thing though, i cant use my PC at the moment cause a part in it is off for RMA and so i cant check out my monitor. Im just a bit concerned cause a couple a days ago i noticed a real tough looking bit of dirt on the monitor and so, not thinking straight, i went and gave it a rub! Now im afraid that i might of damaged it! Im pretty new to LCD's so i dont really know what kind of abuse they can take. Do you think that when i turn it on next week i will see a couple of dead pixels or am i being too paranoid!? Also what kind of abuse have your monitors gone through?

I use a 70% isopropyply alcohol mixture with an equal amount of water. 50/50. Do Not use a paper towel but a clean soft cloth.

you can also try those liquids for cleaning photo camera's lenses. i dont know if your monitor has some kind of coating on the screen, but considering that some lenses have such coating, i guess the cleaning solution will be harmless to your monitor.

but the best way to clean your monitor is to not get it dirty

I tried this out briefly on the area where i stupidly pressed on it and i couldnt see anything out of the ordinary, but what do you mean by imperfections? (what sort)? I just wanna be able to determine its okay without having to wait a whole to find out!

i just mean smudges or scratches. i think you would have noticed anything serious by now. some finger prints can be hard to see inn the light.

Oh..right. There are loads of fingerprints, smudges (no scratches) but that doesnt neccesserily mean damage right? Infact if i switch it on without a computer i get a small graphics logo that moves around the screen. Wouldnt that show up any damage (dead pixels etc.) as its blue in color? Oh and Pain your right i do worry to much but this monitor was too dam expensive for me to ignore it

just realised something, not too important but you should've have posted this in the CE section in lcd/flat panell section of the forums.

on the subject in hand, finger prints will not damage it, they will just annoy the hell out of you.

Damage... no.. Annoyance... Yes, Water (because there r ions in it will cause streaks)just use 70% alcohol or if u got it 90% alcohol (if ur lucky the next person to touch it will get burned ...). As for those ppl who have annoying ppl who wants to touch hte screen.. go into the kitchen and find the clear plastic wrap used to cover food and cover hte front of hte LCD.. Tape the edges shut and pratically no dust will rest on the surface of your monitor and u can wash that plastic wrap in any way u please (or replace it). just stretch it tightly over hte monitor and it shouldnt bother you "that much." BE WARNED: do not use the wrap to cover up the vent holes in the back of hte monitor.. that would be bad.. very bad...

umm... we are talking monitors here right?

If I'm not mistaken, yes.

umm... we are talking monitors here right?

My bad I did stray away from the question a bit , I just wanted to note stupid people will always touch your screen... I clean my CRT's and LCD's and even my Plasma with "Fellowes" brand screen cleaning wipes they come in blister packs or tubes and dry vs. moist. go to http://www.fellowes.com/Fellowes/s [...] x?Id=99700 they are even anti-static!!

Anything to polish up a classic! Its great and yeah those crates are huge now it seems, played alot of dust2 last night though.

scraped... what are you using. for streaks the best way i have is to press firmly and evenly. also make sure you wipe in a methodical manner. streaks usually occur where you haven't wiped properly. don't overlap i.e don't wipe the same bit twice. make a square with a soft cloth and then you can accurately wipe every inch of your screen. tbh little streaks are unnoticable during use of the monitor, but like you i try to keep them to a minimum.

never go two directions. only go down wards. start from the left and making sure your strokes don't overlap wipe the screen.

The LCD's aren't that fragile really, short of rubbing on them with something abrasive or tapping/hitting them with something hard and sharp. I work with them all the time in the touch screen kiosk world (think millions of touches). In the lab I just use one of those microfiber cloths for fingerprints. Sometimes you have to get them a barely damp for grease and food residue.

As for dead pixels, that's a different thing and not really damage. They'll show up very soon in the life of the display or never from what I've heard. They won't usually replace a display unless it has more than 6 or 8 deads, and sometimes they have to be clumped together and thus affecting viewing more dramatically.

Isopropanole dissolves plastic.... You just don't realise it because you don't wipe extensively. Just try it on a piece of plastic; you'll see. As for camera lenses that is ok because they are glass.

For my LCd I'd use a damp cloth. You can eve use a little (a real tiny drop is enough) soap. But I would strongly vote agains any form of solvent.

isopropyl alcohol = isopropanole = 2-propanole

CH3-CHOH-CH3

word!