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@ELSknutson Just buy her another one and set it up for her and relegate the old one to being a back-up. That way she can just transition onto the the new laptop.

 

Otherwise just tell her it's going to reach a point where it's just not going to be powerful enough to be able to handle the increasing complexity of the web content and that that time's coming and it'll grind to a halt more or less overnight so she needs to migrate now.

 

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http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/335602-need-to-discreetly-kill-my-wifes-laptop/?p=4578405

 

^...okay I'm coming around to the idea...

 

lol

 

X0P

 

...but give her notice, buy her a new one and let her transition. You don't have to break her old one, just let her keep it, it might have sentimental value for her...?

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Triforce that shit!

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How good is she with PC's?

Would making Windows unusable and telling her you will sell it as 'scrap' work?

Well she knows I can fix windows issues. 

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My Idea was to take the thermal past off the Cpu Because the computer fan has been running at 100% for about 3 weeks now and I know i can fix it but Im not going to. 

That wouldn't work because thermal shutdown.

But worry not, as it is a HP it'll die soon enough.

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Well she knows I can fix windows issues. 

Tell her you cant fix it

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no I dont have the exact picture this is just an example of how it looks.

 

 

Okay, well look...just this...

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/335602-need-to-discreetly-kill-my-wifes-laptop/page-2#entry4578408

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That wouldn't work because thermal shutdown.

But worry not, as it is a HP it'll die soon enough.

I dont know that thing has gone through allot  its been on deployment to Afganistan gone through 3 years of college, Coke spilled on it, its been dropped off hights of over 3 feet on to a hard floor. Its like a wounded animal that just wont die.

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Tell her you cant fix it

It would need to be convincing because she has seen me dismantle fix it a laptop completely and resemble it to it original working state 

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I dont know that thing has gone through allot  its been on deployment to Afganistan gone through 3 years of college, Coke spilled on it, its been dropped off hights of over 3 feet on to a hard floor. Its like a wounded animal that just wont die.

You can always try opening it and short the board.

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What if she sees this thread

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Um no! thats just mean 

Then what?

Because he had a hard drive.

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You need to mess up the RAM. Try overvolting it or just mess with the pins of it. Then the laptop won't boot to windows. If you need an excuse to open it tell her you would fix the fan. :)

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Take out the Harddrive/SSD.

Replace it with identical HDD without OS.

Noone will notice.

No damage.

Laptop still can be sold.

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Just make sure to back up her data before "things happen".

 

Why not try to be reasonable with the explanation, that shes not making a good expression running around with such a damaged old laptop.

Do Clients see her Laptop - is she showing them stuff on her screen?

If yes, then she might understand, that shes not the only one suffering from this "brick".

 

Equipment makes an impression too...

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You need to mess up the RAM. Try overvolting it or just mess with the pins of it. Then the laptop won't boot to windows. If you need an excuse to open it tell her you would fix the fan. :)

 

Get your hands on a dead stick of ram snd put it into the notebook it won't boot

This might work I do have a few dead sodimms here at work that I could use 

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Just make sure to back up her data before "things happen".

 

Why not try to be reasonable with the explanation, that shes not making a good expression running around with such a damaged old laptop.

Do Clients see her Laptop - is she showing them stuff on her screen?

If yes, then she might understand, that shes not the only one suffering from this "brick".

 

Equipment makes an impression too...

she mainly uses it at home and at school but I feel embarrassed seeing her use it. 

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Lock up the fan in the laptop. Connect some bare solder. That's pretty subtle.

I could just cut one of the fan blades off and let it crunch around till it jams 

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