How do you clean your mouse?

**Zain** · 05-14-2006, 21:30

The ball mice can be cleaned off by using a simple pencil eraser.

Works very well too!

-ZainDustin

**Zalmoxis** · 05-14-2006, 21:55

Optical all the way! But before that, I'd use use cotton swabs.

**Seasoned Alcoholic** · 05-14-2006, 22:24

I used to clean the trackball mice with something sharp, like a compass

They used to pick-up so much dirt from the mousemats...

I used to play FPS' with a trackball - was a bit shocked after switching over to an optical mouse, because you can mouselook much sharper and faster than trackballs ever could do.

**SwordsMaster** · 05-14-2006, 22:33

Never cleaned it. You can get the chepest mouse possible for 3 euro. So every 4-5 months or so I'd just get a new one.

**Somebody Else** · 05-15-2006, 00:13

Apparently human saliva is one of the best solvents for lifting the gunk that accumulates on computer mice - the gunk being mostly made up of human skin and sweat...

To clean an organic mouse; first, extract from snake.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 05-15-2006, 00:51

I used to have ball mice (relation to ball python?

) and cleaned them with my fingers. But a $10 Logitech optical goes a looooong way.

**hoom** · 05-15-2006, 05:11

I use fingernails too (one of the little advantages of fairly long nails)
Opticals of course are better (as long as they are of a design that doesn't get little hairs in the optical path)