What's the best way to clean/dust my computer keyboard?

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3. I Don't Think I'd Use Acetone. Regular Rubbing Alcohol Instead.

Acetone harms some types of plastic. I'm not sure it's damaging to computer keyboards but I wouldn't take the chance it might harm the keys and might get onto components inside the keyboard that are could be vulnerable to it.

Regular old rubbing alcohol isn't a bad cleaner. It evaporates quickly so your keyboard and components within it will be dry faster than if you used a damp cloth or something like Windex. Get some compressed air, turn the keyboard upside down and blow out all the debris too.

Always make sure it's unplugged while you clean. You don't want to short out any components.


On Edit: I've used plain old rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) to even clean out soda spilled on a keyboard that was gumming up the keys and the electrical contacts with very good success. There's no way I'd let acetone run freely on the keyboard. I don't know what it might do if some of it got onto the printed-circuit boards and chips inside the keyboard.