Advice for cleaning glossy screen?

Hello all,
I was debating between posting this in "Displays" so moderators, feel free to move this if you need to.
I'm asking for any advice on what I could use to clean my laptop glossy display.
I've seen "Laptop wipes" but wanted to see if you all have some feedback on them (or other products).
Thanks much!
Ted
Macbook Pro1,2 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.16 GHz, Intel Core Duo, 17" Display, Bus Speed: 667 MHz

Thank you so much for answering.
Since I posted this, I've done a few searches on the forums and found some answers.
I'm nervous about using paper towels because I guess I was told never to use that on my eyeglasses so figured it may have the same negative effect on my glossy screen.
Maybe I'm wrong.
In any case, I appreciate your taking the time to respond.
Macbook Pro1,2 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.16 GHz, Intel Core Duo, 17" Display, Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Macbook Pro1,2 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.16 GHz, Intel Core Duo, 17" Display, Bus Speed: 667 MHz

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iklear has a separate product for glossy screens, check out their website.
You may want to take your laptop and submerge it in a bath...... no please don't do that...
The other supported way is to take a microfiber cloth, dampened with water and clean that way. Your instruction manual with the computer should also have detailed instructions on cleaning the display.
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leonieDF wrote:
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That will not help with your original issue
The original issue with saving all possible metadata? Correct, I understand I definitely lose some information, but (except for the Faces information) I do not care about some of the other stuff being lost and most of what I care about (geotags, etc.) is still being saved to the EXIF/IPTC data upon export from iPhoto. It came down to a question of whether I care more about truly cleaning up all the original files metadata (or the newly exported ones from iPhoto that I will now treat as the "originals") in the event I ever move off iPhoto or care more about doing less work. iPhoto Library Manager is a great tool that I plan on making part of my arsenal, but to get my files where I want them now, I have to do this lengthier/more time-consuming process first because I screwed it up so much over the past ~6 years.
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I figured, given that it is Apple and a package contents things that most users should never touch, that was probably the case, but asking the user community for confirmation never hurts. And no, I do not care enough about it to try tricking it that way. .
leonieDF wrote:
So I found the best way is to simply export my library an album at a time, and use EXIFTOOL to make any other changes necessary before reimporting into my new iPhoto library. Tedious, but once it is all done I should never have to do it again.
and some weird issue where it could not find the original files for some albums
Exporting reimporting will not find the original files. If they are missing, you cannot export. You have to find them outside your library, if they are referenced, Inside your library rebuilding should find them for you.
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