Dust/Dirt/Dark patch behind the screen?!

I am certain that this has appeared today, and seems to be a small dark patch of something behind the screen. It is not a dead or stuck pixel but a small dark patch almost in the centre of the screen.
I have tried cleaning the screen with the provided cloth and a small amount of water but it does seem to be behind it, I just don't understand how!

Time Machine will create a complete backup, but you can't boot from TM. For instance, so your drive crashes. You can attach an external FW drive and boot from that. I know you used to not be able to boot from a USB drive, but I don't know if Apple changed that. I would check that out. If you can boot from a USB drive, then you're all set. Otherwise, you'd need a FW interface, found on most enclosures.
You can use Super Duper! without paying first, but you don't get the scheduling option. You can do everything else.
For the external drive, use Disk Utilty, select your external disk, Choose partition, choose 1 partition (if you want one), select Options, and choose GUID partition table. Then click apply. It has to be GUID to boot with Intel Macs.
So say you get your computer back wiped. You boot from your external drive, launch Super Duper, then copy the clone back to your internal drive, and you are back to where you left off. No loss of data. I've used SuperDuper! for a couple years now and it's saved my life a couple times.
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You need the 1333 speed RAM.
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Hi I have the 2006 Intel 20in iMAC, and I have Dust particles that got behind the screen, Let me see if I can explain this well enough, They are behind the screen, and it looks as if something is On the screen, like a Smudge, but really if you look close it's behind the display like in between the screen and the backlight, is there a Way to take it apart and clean it ?? I've taken this iMAC apart many time's to dust it out, and to change my Hard Drive, so I know what I'm doing when it comes to taking it apart, I just wanted to see if anyone else had this problem, I tend to carry the Computer with me allot, in my iLUGGER Carrying case, so I'm assuming that's how the Dust gets In-Between the screen. Just wanted to know if there is any Take-Apart Tutorials just for the screen itself ? Or if one of those Can's of AIR would somehow get it out ?

hi
dont know if you have the same problem as me
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1387415&tstart=0
i have a picture link up there to my screen burn/smudge
searching around google and found this link for you
http://www.applerepairmanuals.com/#desktops
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cheers

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I dont know how it happened, but my pearl has dust behind the screen. Does anyone
know how to remove the screen so I can clean it.
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Joe

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If you do a search in communities for "dirt inside screen, or dirt under screen, you will find others with the same problem.
Some have said it's not dirt but the LCD that as a problem.
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Something behind the screen.

Hi,
I was unfortunate enough to have a small insect find its way inside my new Sony LCD screen a year back, which resulted in a smal black dot on my screen.
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James

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