Do you need to clean your computers from dust and dirt?

Question

Computers

Have you ever had to clean computers from dust and dirt at work (or for clients)? Wash keyboards? Clean monitors?

Do you do it regularly? If yes, why? Forced by corporate policy? Makes the accounting department, whose employees hate to look at a dusty computer with traces of shoes? Forced by the boss, who is offended by the appearance of the case with black stripes? Makes a designer whose mouse with breadcrumbs and traces of coffee work worse? Forces a system administrator who does not want to carry an overheated hard drive for repair? Who does the cleaning: each one himself, the cleaning lady, the same office that comes to clean the windows?

If not, why not? Does everyone work on laptops and clean them themselves? Nobody gets annoyed by a dusty computer with shoe marks? Are mice covered in coffee and keyboards covered in cookies just thrown away once a month and bought new? Do you think that neither dust nor dirt interferes with work?

Answer 1

I'm not a sysadmin, but I watch my computer. And I clean the mouse-keyboard, and I wipe the monitor, and I blow the system unit. And I prefer to do it myself than to entrust it to someone else.
And all because it is banally more pleasant to work with a clean “tool” that does not hum from a bag of dust inside and just looks neat.

Answer 2

I’m not quite in the subject, but personally I always washed the mouse and keyboard at work on my own (programmer), and I couldn’t even think about asking the admin about this. It seems to me that there can be only one answer to this, and it contains non-standard vocabulary.
The only thing worth doing, I believe, is to vacuum the system from the inside from time to time.

Answer 3

Once, in the office where I worked as an administrator, a friend was promoted to the position of Deputy State Duma. When moving from one office to another (with his own, please note, computer), a friend “asked” to wipe his computer. Having received a logical recommendation to take napkins from the girls at the reception, he was mortally offended and invited my boss for a conversation. Prior to that, as it turned out, he happened to work in an organization that had a dedicated group in the IT department that did this.
The moral of this fable is this: if the scale of the organization and its HR allows you to recruit low-skilled personnel for these purposes, then this is the concern and work of the ICU. Otherwise, it is the responsibility of each employee. Of course, in addition to cleaning the insides - this was, is and will be the task of the ICU.

Answer 4

And I grab my heart right when the cleaning lady comes and starts washing with a mop right over all the wires.
I was lucky with internal cleaning, I have access to compressed air, I “puffed” a couple of times into an open system unit - and no dust. I recommend fixing the fan blades, otherwise, under the pressure of air, they turn into generators. On one mainland so killed the fan power circuit.

Answer 5

I read everything from time to time. I wipe the system unit from above with a damp cloth, especially where there are grilles in front of the fans. Inside I clean with a brush for drawing, and then I clean it all with a vacuum cleaner.
Who has not yet cleaned the system unit, it's time to do it, because. it's already summer and possible overheating of iron is just around the corner, and the layer of dust accumulated over the months, wow, contributes to this.
I only read myself)

Answer 6

the system engineers stand on the tables and don’t gather much dust, I regularly wipe my keyboard, mouse and monitor with napkins.
I agreed with the supply manager to hang a sign in front of the open space entrance so that drinks and grub are not carried in - there are no mice and crumbs in the keyboards.
well, if a person is a pig, then let him get dirty on a greasy mouse and clave, ask for help - I will give napkins so that the worker will bring the tool back to normal.

Answer 7

Regularly, every 1-2 years I do a complete disassembly and cleaning of computers at home and at work. I do this for two reasons:
- To avoid overheating due to dust;
- To avoid extraneous noise due to loose bolts.

Answer 8

Once a month I clean the system units at our facilities, the specifics of the work are such that the amount of dust in the workplace is catastrophic.
You open the system unit and see an enchanting picture, coolers and the floor of the motherboard in felt :)

Answer 9

Only when the percentage starts to slow down because the radiator is clogged with dust and the fan does not cool it.

Answer 10

I don’t know, keyboards and mice, I wipe it, if I fill it with tea, for example, it’s easier to change it - I threw out about 10 washed and clean but not assembled keyboards a couple of years ago) The system manager stood open on the windowsill all winter and almost without dust, the other day I vacuumed, wiped , collected and put under the table.
Something like this.
And as an engineer, it’s tritely unpleasant for me to get into dirty system engineers if it’s a client one. But pah, pah, so far only once the client had a dirty system unit, but, surprisingly, inside there is almost no dust and dirt, for all the years of his work - a memory stump of 1.6 / 512.

Answer 11

Cleaning the system unit inside is needed, preferably according to the regulations. But all sorts of requests like to wipe the dust would go to the forest. Your workplace must be kept clean. Sometimes it seems that they have housekeepers at home, or srach. Either they watch the telly on a felt boot, or the housekeeper turns up the volume for them - they can’t turn up the sound at a video conference. Although, judging by some of the shattered screens of their iPhones and iPads, it's not surprising why mice and keyboards are like that.

Answer 12

Sysadmin in a small office (50 computers)
I clean the system myself when they get on my desk due to malfunctions or due to any other reason. Those that are in the warehouse (in conditions of increased dustiness) are scheduled to be cleaned every six months.
Monitors, mice, keyboards are the domain of users.

Answer 13

Cleaning the system units from dust from the inside every spring. In production workshops as often as possible (there are ordinary system units,
Cleaning only by blowing air from a vacuum cleaner. Of course, on the street. Users must keep all external surfaces clean themselves
. when they saw what a cloud of dust flies from the system unit during cleaning, they made surprised eyes.
I clean servers every 3 years. The conditions allow them to be turned off - no one works at night.