5 Things to Clean Up Your PC for Spring
March 21, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Desktops
PC Magazine has a somewhat useful feature for those who’ve let all the dirt build-up on their computers over the past months or year. A snippet describes the total grossness of a dirty PC:
What do the inside of your PC and the back of your refrigerator have in common? You’ve probably never seen or cleaned either. Of course, nobody else can see the scary accumulation of sloughed-off skin, pet hair, food particles, insect parts, mold spores, and other disgusting nasties. So should you care? If the health of your equipment and family matters to you, the answer is absolutely yes.
Read the whole article here. If you’re too lazy to read the whole text:
- The author swears by Audiovox’ Surface as a display cleaner
- Use a can of compressed gas to blow dust off—but never turn the can upside down!
- Wipe fans with a damp cloth, and use WD-40 to keep them running smoothly
- Use your printer’s cleaning utility (duh!)
(Image from PC Magazine)
