What is a good cleaning method to maintain MBP?

I want to keep my investment clean, and I was wondering what do you all use to wipe off and clean your MacBook Pro's? I dont want to use something that might damage or disfigure the machine like the wrong brand of windex or something. thank you.

My cleaning material isnt fancy at all. i just use a damp soapy rag, but not wet enough to get inside the machine. Apple takes care to make their products somewhat water resistant, so a little bit of water on the exterior doesnt harm it and it works just fine to keep that fine machine working wonderfully!
Best regards!
Mark

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For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utility is: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption. Drive Genius provides additional tools not found in Disk Warrior for defragmentation of older drives, disk repair, disk scans, formatting, partitioning, disk copy, and benchmarking.
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If you are using a pre-Leopard version of OS X, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced after Tiger. (These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion and should not be installed.)
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OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive except when trying to install Boot Camp on a fragmented drive. Malware Protection
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Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection:
1. Mac Malware Guide.
2. Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware
3. Macintosh Virus Guide
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