Water is recommended; I use Alcohol-Free Multi Purpose Wipes by  "Dust-Off". These work well on desktops or my laptop. Use a soft rag like a diaper to lightly buff the screen.

No, rubbing alchohal is fine for use on lcd screens, just as long as it's isopropyl.

I use the cloth that is used for cleaning glasses. It is really soft and works really well. Don't need to worry about scratching the screen. Make it a bit damp with water and it works perfectly.

Sunglass hut has a nice microfiber cloth and spray they recommend for their plastic glasses, I use the same for my plastic screen cover

Dissolves the palm rest?

I used to use a paper towel dampened with tap water. I still use a paper towel, but I bought some spray screen cleaner from Staples (which according to the label is safe for LCD screens). It might streak a little less, but pretty much works about the same.

Do not use any of the following chemicals or any solutions that contain them: Acetone, ethyl alcohol, toluene, ethyl acid, ammonia, or methyl chloride. If you have a different chemical or solution and are not sure whether it is suitable, do not use it. Using any of the chemicals in the previous list may cause permanent damage to the LCD screen. Some commercial window cleaners contain ammonia and are therefore unacceptable.

There are many cleaning solutions sold specifically as LCD cleaners. You can use these to clean LCD screens on Dell notebooks. Alternately, you may use a 50/50 isopropyl alcohol and water mixture. Microfiber cloths such as those used to clean eyeglasses are excellent for use with LCDs.

JBravo, yeah, something like that.  The palm rests are silver on mine, and had some grunge on them (from my palms I guess... I dunno) anyway, I thought of cleaning them, so I used some isopropyl alcohol on a rag, and wiped them, in doing so I wiped across from the silver to the black where the keys are.  Well, looked fine until it dried, when I was surprised to see the keys and black areas drying a white color.  I'm not 100% sure, but I think the alcohol disolved some of the silver paint off or something.  Cleaning the black part was far harder then cleaning what I originally planned to clean.  lots of scrubbing with water :(

...hmm. Not to mention you can take a swig when you run out of beer! You are probably right CSmith. But, to me, alcohol always seems to have a "drying out" effect wherever one uses it.

Message Edited by purrplexed on 12-28-2003 09:19 AM

Yeah, a little, my brother has the flu and my I8200 motherboard failed and hasn't been replaced yet, so I'm using his, but everytime after he uses it I have to clean it off with a little alchohal on a tissue. I also cleaned the screen with the alchohal while I was at it and it's much cleaner now. Alchohal works fine for me. In my eyes, there's no need to buy a more expensive product to do the same thing a simple household product with a little, let's say, "elbow grease" will do.