thatsright
Diamond Member
I have one of those MS Natural Multimedia Keyboards. But after a few months, it gets gunked up and the keys are not as 'quite.' Here how I 'fixed' it.
What I did, was turn the keyboard upside down, and take the palm of my hand and slam on the back of it vigorously for a while. The whole goal is to get as much crap out of it as possible that has fallen down into the key 'well' I guess you could call it? I just pound on the back of it, until no more crumbs, dust, hair, etc falls out. Then with it still turned upside down, I use nearly half a can of compressed air to REALLY make sure anything remaining falls out.
Finally, I slam on the back of the keyboard again, to make 100% sure I got everything. Remember, if you do this...all of these steps need to be done with the 'space' key facing the ground while you have it twisted.
And that, is sort of like 80% of the battle to keep it clean. The other 20% is to just make periodically sure you use some oxi clean, and spray it on a cloth and vigorously wipe down the most dirty keys. Just my opinion, but you don't want to try and clean too many key 'faces' at once, or else the gunk/grease will fall right back into the Keyboard 'well.' Anyone else with any other tips, please let us know.
Right now I have the MS Natural Multimedia Pro keyboard. Love it. I only LOVE two things from Microsoft, my keyboard and Trackball optical. Everything else, well.......you know....
Hope this helps.
Courtney
What I did, was turn the keyboard upside down, and take the palm of my hand and slam on the back of it vigorously for a while. The whole goal is to get as much crap out of it as possible that has fallen down into the key 'well' I guess you could call it? I just pound on the back of it, until no more crumbs, dust, hair, etc falls out. Then with it still turned upside down, I use nearly half a can of compressed air to REALLY make sure anything remaining falls out.
Finally, I slam on the back of the keyboard again, to make 100% sure I got everything. Remember, if you do this...all of these steps need to be done with the 'space' key facing the ground while you have it twisted.
And that, is sort of like 80% of the battle to keep it clean. The other 20% is to just make periodically sure you use some oxi clean, and spray it on a cloth and vigorously wipe down the most dirty keys. Just my opinion, but you don't want to try and clean too many key 'faces' at once, or else the gunk/grease will fall right back into the Keyboard 'well.' Anyone else with any other tips, please let us know.
Right now I have the MS Natural Multimedia Pro keyboard. Love it. I only LOVE two things from Microsoft, my keyboard and Trackball optical. Everything else, well.......you know....
Hope this helps.
Courtney
