Tips on How to Clean HP Laptop Keyboard

1. Place a polish cloth over the keyboard whenever closing the lid.

This is a preventative maintenance measure. Polish cloths don’t scratch screens, and when placed over theHP Laptop Keyboard before you close the lid, little to no dirt or whatever else is flying in air won’t get into the keyboard while you’re away from it (dirt can enter from the sides even with the lid closed). Granted, it isn’t the most stylish thing seeing a polish cloth draping out over the sides, but it does keep things cleaner.

Important note: You must lay the polish cloth absolutely flat when you close the lid. If you do the fold-over thing, this can cause undue pressure on the screen and damage it.



2. Remove the keyboard before blasting it with compressed air.

Yes, I know, removing a HP Laptop Keyboard is scary. The two hardest parts are are getting the tiny latches/clips to release, and then carefully disconnecting the tiny ribbon connector (or possibly two of them) from under the keyboard so you can safely remove the board. Once the keyboard is out however, cleaning it is very easy because you can actually get your compressed air where it’s supposed to go and get the crud *out* rather than blast it further under the keys.

If you’re too afraid to remove your keyboard (and I wouldn’t blame you), try tip #3 below instead.



3. Blast the keyboard with compressed air with the laptop upside down.

You can do this the sort-of-good-way or the good way.

The sort-of-good way is to take your laptop, open it so it makes a “V” shape and place on your desk upside-down-V style. When you start blasting your HP Laptop Keyboard with compressed air, most dust particles and other debris will fall out and on to the desk instead of being pushed further inside the laptop.

The good way, while a bit of a production, does work better. Take two stacks of books (or old software boxes or whatever you have that’s book-like; old phone books work really good here) that equal the same or roughly the same height when stacked on the desk. The height of the stacks should be 8 to 12 inches. Spread the stacks apart so the total space between them is 1 to 2 inches less than your laptop’s overall width. Open the laptop and place it keyboard-down on top of the stacks, with the lid in the rear. Then start blasting air to clean your keyboard as you normally would. Dust and other debris has no choice but to fall down.



Important note 1: Watch your angle when you do this. If you notice your compressed air is liquifying because of the angle of your spray, stop and adjust because you don’t want to shoot condensation into your laptop keyboard.

Important note 2: Obviously, have the laptop unlplugged and battery out when you clean like this.

Important note 3: It is very likely that if you haven’t cleaned the keyboard in a while (if ever), dust and other crud that falls out may get carried by your compressed air and mash itself on the screen. You’ll probably have to do a screen cleaning once you’re done with your keyboard cleaning.

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