greatone1601,
Use a damp cloth and then wipe it with a clean dry cloth. Do not use any glass cleaner like Windex, it will damage the coating.

Marvin P

XPS B800r
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8200 1.8G
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I have two clean clothes that I use to clean my screen. I wet the first one with about a quart of water with one drop of liguid dish detergent soap and squeeze out all the water. I gently use this cloth to wipe the screen and then immediately dry it with the dry cloth. Then I wash the clothes and line dry and place the cloths in a zip locked bag until the next time I use. A piece of white tee shirt seems to work very well for the cloths. Just do not use a glass cleaner because I found out the hard way that this can take the coating off.

aps
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I concur with Marvin P and aps; a clean, soft cotton cloth with no Windex or other cleaning fluid seems to work best. Also, if you sometimes leave windows open in the evening and have a light nearby that attracts tiny light-loving flying bugs that tend to hover in front of the screen once they discover its light, never squash them on the screen to end their harassing flight. I did that once--first and last time--and had to spend 20 minutes or so getting the screen clean again. Though not mentioned in the posts above, I've also learned to ignore the two faint wire lines that support the aperture tube grill.

I can tell you from experience being a wearer of coated eyeglass lenses that cleaning an optical surface 'dry' is just asking for trouble. The dust your screen electrostatically attracts is most definitely abrasive and although the choice of the soft cotton cloth is imperative, without a wet solution to 'float' the particles, you will invariably cause micro-scratching of the surface coating. Dell's recommendations in the provided link are sound and will not compromise your warranty when adhered to...there are those who prefer to purchase solutions specifically engineered to this purpose, the choice is yours. Read these instructions all the way through and pay particular attention to cleaning while powered down, AC mains unplugged and don't spray any solution directly onto the screen. Good luck.

http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/monitors/p992/g_englsh/maintain.htm