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Hardware care - Keyboard

Precautions

  • Keep covered. In some situations, such as in an industrial site where machine grease is likely to be on the operators fingers a clear plastic cover can be used..
  • Keep liquids away from keyboard.
  • For your own personal safety, if you are sharing a keyboard you should wash your hands before handling food.

Keyboard cleaning

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  • Done with a plastic cleaner which evaporates quickly, but ensure that the keyboard is left in the same state as when cleaning was started. Eg. [Num Loc] key.
  • Regularly dust and vacuum.
  • It is probably best to clean the keyboard whilst the computer is turned off!!.

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