{"id":1972,"date":"2007-01-04T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/tips-to-easily-clean-your-apple-mighty-mouse\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:38:15","slug":"tips-to-easily-clean-your-apple-mighty-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/tips-to-easily-clean-your-apple-mighty-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean Apple Mac Mighty Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever feel the need to clean your Mighty Mouse? &#8211; the sleek white mouse that ships with the <strong>Apple Mac computers<\/strong>. Here are a collection of tips to effectively clean your Apple mouse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Apple has official cleaning instructions for the <strong>Mighty mouse<\/strong> should you need to clean fingerprints or its soiled surface using a clean lint-free cloth, sometimes moistened with water (with a movie to help you out too).<\/p>\n<p>If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tip\/2006\/08\/11.1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hold your Mighty Mouse upside down<\/a>, and move your mouse in a circular motion with the scroll ball against the cloth for about a minute, it might work. Don&#8217;t press too hard if you don&#8217;t want to damage your mouse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Apple Mighty Mouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/mighty-mouse.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/> Some people try a strip of clear tape to get it cleaned up. Its seems a very thin strip of scotch tape, carefully looped under the scroll ball can provides effective mouse ball cleansing. Sometimes a burst of compressed air can get your scroll button working.<\/p>\n<p>But if you are really willing to take the risk and want to <strong>clean up every bit of your Mighty mouse<\/strong>, try out the step by step instructions to open up the Mighty Mouse and throughly clean it. But this comes with a few warnings &#8211; &#8220;This will void your warranty on the mouse. If you do not feel comfortable with small items, or have large fingers, do not do this yourself.&#8221; and &#8220;If this procedure does not work, your scroll mechanism is fried, and it&#8217;s time to visit the Apple Store.&#8221; Another tutorial to open up the mouse. Check out a more detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/paedia\/hardware\/dissect.ars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dissection of the Mighty Mouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> All these tips are experiences shared by the authors of these posts. Use them at your own risk. Else seek professional authorized Apple support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever feel the need to clean your Mighty Mouse? &#8211; the sleek white mouse that ships with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computers","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}