[Yo-Yo]

If you have a very high quality keyboard where every key is an honest-to-goodness switch, you can probably get away with this trick given that YOU DO NOT HAVE HARD WATER OR USE A WATER SOFTNER.

However, most keyboards simply have a conductive pad that presses against traces etched onto the underlying circuit board. My niece once spilled some bottled water into her keyboard, and upon disassembly I found that just the water caused the very fine traces to corrode and etch away.

If you must wash your keyboard because it is otherwise hosed anyway, you have nothing to lose and the no soap, no heated dry is the way I'd go. Keep in mind though that if you keep the rinse agent dispenser filled, you'll end up with a film of Jet-Dri all over your keyboard innards.

If the keycaps are just dirty, then take a clean rag or old t-shirt, spray Windex (no, I'm not Greek) ON THE RAG and wipe down the keyboard keys gently. I suggest you do this with the computer off, but if you do it with a word processing program open, if you clean your keyboard often enough you could end up with the next best-seller! (A corollary to the typing monkey theory.)

Good luck, and remember that CompUSA carries keyboards for under $20.

[stylin_geek]

I'd have known you were Greek if you'd recommended Windex for an elbow problem.