A glass of red wine in my laptop - now what?
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What!! You and your beloved together having red wine over a nice dinner and you had your laptop open? Tsk Tsk...\n\nSome of the options available:\n\n1. Drop your beloved if she thinks she is more important than your laptop.\n\n2. If she really is that important, drop the laptop on a hard surface and claim insurance.\n\n3. If you can't leave either, give your beloved a nice kiss and a cuddle when she is cleaning the laptop with cotton swabs dipped in Jack Daniels.
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Chocolate, or bottle of wine?
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7.30am- we had some white wine in the fridge left from the night before- i know that's not good!
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Ummm, I usually need help just turning a computer on. If it doesn't dispense beer out of it I basically have no idea how it works :)\n\nSorry, I'm no help
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Chances are that some of the liquid has got through to the motherboard. I'm afraid that you'll to take to a computer specialist to get it repaired and then I suspect they won't be able to do much at a reasonable cost. It would probably be cheaper to buy a new/secondhand one. Laptops aren't good with liquids, I've had to deal with quite a few.
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sit in the fridge while using the laptop
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A trial version of Alcohol 120% should do fine.\n\nhttp://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/index.php\n\nI am not sure about the cue file though but if it can be burned alcohol 120%  will know what to do with it.\n\nhttp://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/index.php\n\nEDIT: BTW dvd decrypter was shutdown months ago by macrovison. If you goto the decrypter site your IP is logged by macrovision and you are forwarded to google.co.uk
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okey!\n\nhere is a very nice app that lets you execute some window files/executables from within linux.\nhttp://www.winehq.com/site/download\nYou'll probably also find it inside the linux CD.\nBut first did you mount the windows file systems to linux?\nIf not install the NTFS kernel module for your kernel:\nPls search the internet for the following:\nkernel-module-ntfs RPM packages for Red Hat/Fedora\n\n*If you want to find out what kernel you're running, you can open a terminal and type:\nuname -r\n\nnow after installing the module try to mount your NTFS partition/Windows Patrtition.\nIf you see any prob then do:\nman mount\n\ncheers
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some cd lens cleaner solution, or rubbing alcohol and a Q-tip.\nwith just a touch of gentle motion should have that lens clean in no time\n\nmake sure you pop the drive open and remove it from the laptop first (or pop it open and shut the laptop off)\nthen allow up to 15 minutes for any liquid to fully dry. then give it a whirl
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A bottle of wine and chocolates
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It is possible to run Windows applications on Linux, either with the free Wine ( http://www.winehq.org ) or the commercial, supported CrossOver Office ( http://www.codeweavers.com/ ).\n\nI'd recommend only doing this as a temporary measure, until suitable replacements can be found.
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Well I can turn water into wine...
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Go pay the 20 bucks for 3 cans of AIR...\n\nSpray your keyboard with air, you are not supposed to clean computers with alchohol anyhow, it can erase the painting of the numbers on the keys...\n\nThe best way to clean it, is to blow the crap out of it with canned air, Just make sure you lean your laptop up, rather than turning the can sideways, otherwise the can will spray out cool liquid which will damage your computer...\n\nKeep the canned air straight. And spray with your keyboard slightly angled...\n\nI recommend using windex. Alchohol is to volatile and similar to laquer thinner which removes paint.\n\nAlso dont ever spray windex directly on the machine, spray it first on a paper towel, then whipe with the paper towel, to ensure drips to not get into the computer....\n\n\nI DO NOT RECCOMEND that hairbrush idea, computers and water are the dumbest mixture ever. Not to mention that under the keys is a plastic electronic sheet which accepts the keys when pressed upon, very similar to the insides of a watch but on a much thinner scale, you don want to get water on it.\n\nI ALSO DO NOT recommend pulling keys off, while in most cases you can and its easy. Some keyboards feature a metal rod beneath the keys that make the bigger keys stick and bounce back to the touch, if you remove the key, the metal latch will come off and the key will be very lose...\n\nAnd lumper, what the heck man, they make canned air exactly for this item... If you take it to a store itll cost a bit more than a few bucks, and they will do the exact same thing, they will spray it with canned air.\n\n20 bucks will get you 3 cans of air, and 1 can of air will last you half a year if you use it once a month.
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For that i use alcohol 120\nhttp://www.alcohol-soft.com/\n\nit is worth buying as it supports a many other different image formats. you can try it free for 30 where after it stops working. In alcohol you can set up as many virtual drives as you like. then in alcohol you right click your virtual drive ans select mount image. browse to where the image is stored and it mounts it.\n\nIf you go to my computer you will see extra dvd-drives, how ever many virtual dirves you set up. In my coimputer you can also right click on any virtual drive and select mount image. \n\nDeamon tools can also do the job but the last time i downloaded deamon tools it was bundled with spyware.
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take the hard drive out  of machine nad either take it to pieces and smash the silver discs inide or smash it to pieces with a very large hammer. Don't forget your safety goggles!
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Try Daemontools or Alkohol 120%
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I have a Dell and the owner's manual says NOT to use alcohol.  So I never have.  But I did get a box of specially prepared cleaning cloths for computer screens (100 to a box) for about $3.50 in WalMart.  And they've worked well.  If you use one a week, it'll last almost 2 years.  Not a bad investment.  :-)