My Zen Sleek with dust under the scre

Hi,
i have a zen sleek bad dust under the screen returned it and have got another one, same issue again i dont want to return it again due to inconvenience and postage costs,
I have tried canned air and it doesnt work,
Has anyone got a fix for this and what else can i do? could creative swap it for another model mp3 player?
Thanks, Eddie

zenny53 wrote:
I've had to return a Sleek becuase of dust too. It doesn't matter how many new Zen Sleek's you get, they'll all get dust under the screen. When I got my second one, the FIRST thing I did was wrap the whole thing (except for the headphone socket and usb sockets and the touchpad) in clear tape. I find you can still use it perfectly and the tape really isn't noticeable unless you look closely. This is probably the best thing to do. Canned air didn't work for me. I've only found dust speck under the screen since getting my new player and it's because of the tape.
One of the truly useful accessories lacking for Creative products are protecti've skins. People shouldn't have to resort to covering their player with tape.

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http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ery.id=0#M2436
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