White Spirit will get the label off, but may also damage any underlying paint or plastic. Use with care.

a small amount of WD40 usually does the trick

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-05-18, 07:09:

a small amount of WD40 usually does the trick

It can stain PCBs or erase printed text under the label in my experience 😒

There are some special sticker remover chemicals as far as I know, but it's been ages since I went to a hardware store due to covid 🤣

Small bit of washing up liquid for sticky residue.
OEM and small labels don't bother me, all part of its history.

Stickers that cover part numbers of hardware or very noticeable (say a sticker crossing multiple ram chips) I'll remove

on external things, things that show i might have a go at removing it but for something internal i'd probably leave it partly for fear of unwittingly damaging something sensitive. It would be sort of (well, not really 😀 ) reassuring to know that a25 year old HDD was in a good state of repair 21 years ago!

I have a pecking order:
Dry soft cloth
Cloth+water
Cloth+water+washing up liquid (or cloth+foaming cleaner)
Isopropyl alcohol+cloth (aka IPA or propan-2-ol)
Methylated spirits (methyl alcohol/methanol)
After that point it's petrol/paraffin/<insert name of petroleum based product>

It very rarely gets beyond IPA in my experience.

chinny22 wrote on 2021-05-18, 09:28:

OEM and small labels don't bother me, all part of its history.

I have a big old Cooler Master case with ATI/AMD/Creative/Seasonic labels on it, as well as an ID badge for some long-ago LAN party, all added by previous owner(s). I would never remove these.

I'm using Goo Gone on stickers, afterwards wiping the stuff left off with isopropal.

Lemon essential oil works best from my experience. Unlike Goo Gone, it doesn't leave an oily residue.

Just be careful with it as it can melt certain plastic.