You missed the “sit back” instruction, then.
Windex has ammonia. I’ve seen it remove the coating from those glare screens for monitors. Many times I think people mistake don’t use it because it removes a coating, with it runs down into the unit and damages it. Try using a cleaner for plastic lens in glasses on the screen, to remove the streaks. It might help, and you already have streaks that annoy you.
Exactly. I don’t know why anyone would want to involve fancy chemicals. Are they trying to “disinfect” the screen?
Isn’t Windex, you know… wet? :smack:
You can erase a dry-erase board with a wet paper towel. You don’t need a special eraser (let alone that special spray they sell). Those erasers eventually build up ink, and are just causing the new ink to fall into the tray at the bottom of the board.
However, I don’t know which is more ecological: wet paper towels or the eraser.
I clean mine with a little isopropanol solution on a cotton ball.
Why do I do this?
To remove ink pen markings.
Why is there ink on my monitor?
Because I have small children.
It works great - no ink, no fingerprints (kids again), no smudges, and no damage thusfar (several years).
Well, shoot. I’m not sure it’s indicative of complete idiocy to assume that you can use window cleaner to clean what looks like a clear screen.
I’ve never cleaned my LCD monitor with Windex, but that’s because I happened to notice the warning in the manual. It’s certainly not an obvious common-sense issue in my opinion.
But, hey – a gentleman of your obvious intelligence (as indicated by your above-average spelling & grammar skills) should certainly feel free to sit on his high horse and look down his nose at the rest of us poor dummies.
I fail to see why it would not be a fair exercise of common sense to put glass cleaner on an item made of glass. I mean, sure, I may be dumb as a sack of hammers, but that isn’t why.
I for one thank the OP’er for this thread because I did not know this. Ignorance was fought today! 
For the record, though: LCD monitor screens are not made of glass. They’re plastic.
By the way, overnight, the problem has largely gone away after all!
I think maybe ammonia can damage plastic, but in my case, what I was noticing was just some of the windex having got under the edge of the screen. Now its mostly evaporated or something.
The person who did this says they did not spray directly onto the screen, though, so I don’t know exactly how so much would have gotten under the surface.
-Kris
The lovely Ms. Kuboydal attempted to wash the laptop display in beer. It streaked a bit.
I wonder if she will streak if I wash her in beer.
Just checking in to say that I do this all the time and never noticed a problem. I just make sure I spray on a paper towel and not directly on the screen, to avoid seepage around the edges.
Now I’m wondering if I have only two or three more good cleanings left before I trash my monitor with Windex.
It’s ammonia.
You can get 4’x5" microfiber cloths at any sunglass store for $1.99, BTW.
My brother got me the Monster cleaner; their cables and electrical devices are uselessly overengineered and overpriced, but the cleaner does an awesome job. From the look and feel of it, I think the cloth contains rubber fibres. Works great on my CRT, LCDs, and TVs.
I saw my wife use spray cleaner on her whiteboard which is right next to her notebook with lcd. I cringed and suggested that was not a good way to christen a one week old computer.
The Monster iClean stuff comes with a microfiber cloth; microfiber is 80% polyester and 20% nylon.
Windows, unless you like the streaky look. It’s ridiculous how much blue dye is put in some glass cleaners. I just use water with some vinegar spritzed on the cloth with a spray bottle. It’s cheap and it’s clear.
I’m sure that works great, and I cook with vinegar all the time, but I cannot stand the smell of evaporting vinager when used as a cleaning product.
Take this with a grain of salt because I barely know this guy but . . .
I recently met someone who works for Best Buy and he said the ~$200 Monster cables were, after his employee discout, 6 bucks. That’s one hell of a mark up.
Pretty much true. I used to sell these too. The mark-up is almost that much. That’s why the sales mangers pushed us so hard to add them on to EVERY SALE. You want cables just as good at the price that the Big Box stores buy them? Try Monoprice.com. Paid four bucks (six with shipping) for a cable that Circuit City sells for 130 dollars.
Most loyal Monster Cable users rave about the quality, but if your willing to spend a half-hour of your time, you can actually MAKE higher quality cables (in every measurement: signal, impedance, effectiveness of sheilding). Found a guide from the gurus at AVS forums. Similiar quality cables (Other companies than Monster DO make them that good) would sell for six hundred bucks. Will cost you about twenty to make. Overkill? Probably. But audio/videophiles are like that.