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Why Do You Say Never Use Paper Towels or Tissues to Clean a Display?

From Catherine Roseberry, for About.com

Question: Why Do You Say Never Use Paper Towels or Tissues to Clean a Display?
Answer: It's important to never use any paper based products to clean or wipe down your laptop display. Paper towels, facial tissue and toilet paper can scratch your laptop display. They also leave behind fragments of paper that over time will wreck your laptop display. Paper products also leave behind lint which they pick up from the air and you end up grinding this lint into your LCD if you use paper products.

Use only special wipes that have been created for cleaning laptop display screens. When looking at laptop display cleaning products make sure that the proudct is meant to be used on LCDs. There are some cleaning wipes that can be used on CRT displays but cannot be used on LCDs.

Using the proper cleaning products for laptops displays will ensure that you keep clean and prevent damage from occuring to it from cleaning products that are too harsh.

Take time to read labels carefully and use the proper products for keeping your laptop display clean.

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