>>>>>>>Noticed the wheel on the mouse was getting a little hard to move, so I popped open the mouse to clean it out. Yikes! Pulled out clump of gunk that was piled up around the wheel mechanism, then picked out the impacted stuff in the wheel itself using tweezers. End up with a rather sizable pile of gunk...
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>>>>>>That's why you need an optical mouse. Old wheel types were like desktop vacuum cleaners..
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>>>>>So if I have an optical mouse I now need to get a desktop vacuum
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>>>>naaaw, just more patience. The things not falling to the floor
>>>>will conviniently aggregate in the keyboard or be drawn to the screen
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>>>Once a week I turn my keyboard upside down and bang it hard on the desk. I usually get enough out to make a couple of sandwiches.
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>>Read this tip a few years back and it's great. Anytime I'm about to throw out a post-it note, I first turn it upside down and run it along some of the gaps in the keyboard. It picks up lots of crud that way.
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>>Tamar
>someone handed me a packet of stuff called "CyberClean" -- a flourescent yellow coloured goop (sort'a reminds me of the late 1970s toy called "Slime"). Glopped it onto the keyboard, rolled it around a bit, squishing it around so it got into all the spaces around the keys. It picked up a whole mess of gunk (and this is *after* I'd already given the keyboarde a few slaps and virgorous shaking to shake out the loose debris) -- enough to turn the CyberClean goop a brownish colour. And nope -- I have not tried to see if the result makes a good sandwich spread or not...

These guys didn't like it:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/09/cyber-clean-smears-our-keyboards-fills-our-nostrils-as-we-go-ha/

I was wondering if it was meant for mostly loose dust and grime.