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Old April 18th 12, 04:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:41:36 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:47:43 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:19:28 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:


My view is to avoid risk whenever you can. But we are obviously
different in this regard.


There are different levels of risk.



Certainly true. And I recommend avoiding all levels that you can
readily avoid.


That's ridiculous, considering the amount of risk we're talking about
here, which is about as close to zero as you can get. There's risk
with canned air, as well. Do you avoid that, too? Probably not.

An air compressor is fine, but very few of us have one. So for all
practical purposes, canned air is what's best.


That would be fine if canned air worked, but in my view it doesn't. It
only dislodges a tiny fraction of what needs to be removed.



That's not my experience at all. Does it remove everything? No,
nothing will remove everything. But it removes the great majority of
what's there.


If that's your experience, you'd probably be shocked at what it
DOESN'T remove. The loose dust bunnies are easily removed, but they
aren't the problem.

I routinely see systems where the CPU heat sink fins are packed
tightly with a combo of dust, cat hair, and who knows what else. That
stuff laughs at me when I reach for canned air. When it comes out,
it's in small chunks, almost cement-like.

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Char Jackson
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