[astoria18]

Hey,
I'm new to Macs and new to these boards so I was wonderign if you could help me out.. I was cleaning my trackpad today with dish soap (maybe not a good idea?) and I dried everything off and cleaned it up properly and now my trackpad is completely unresponsive. What did I do? Any suggestions as to what to do about this?
Thanks,
Ben

[pat++]

This was a pretty bad idea... anyway, try to clean it with a soft wet tissu, make sure the iBook is shutdown when you do it. Then dry it completely, and wait. Make sure you do not turn it on before a couple of hours.

Then if it's still not working properly, try to reset the Power Management Unit :

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449

And hopefully, everything should be back to normal.

(From my experience, the responsiveness of the trackpad will come back when it's dry)

[tooki]

It's just wet around the edges -- water gets in the little gap and confuses it till it dries off. Give it a little while to dry and it'll be fine. (It's not that water shorted it out -- it's that water on the waterproof surface of the pad confuses it is all.)

tooki

[smic]

what i did so my trackpad doesnt get dirty was to find a plastic sticker that is easy to peel off without residue, and put that on the trackpad, and so far it works great, and if it gets dirty or worn out i can just switch it

[AppLe_SnaP]

Hi...

My trackpad has this 'oily - shine' on it which is making it not smooth and hard to use...i was wondering if there is anything i can do to rid this shine and restore my trackpad back to near-new state?

please help...i love using my trackpad...and its just annoying now...