# IT/Programming Help

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**Created:** [March 20, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959 "2009-03-20T13:49:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jays05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@jays05](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jays05)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959/16 "2009-03-23T14:34:12Z")

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> [@car question (turbo honda)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-question-turbo-honda/16030/2):
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> The client we are developing this for is a rent to own company. Basically they want software from us that will disable a pc and basically force the customer to bring in the computer to have it “fixed” and make a payment or it dosent get fixed.
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> Basically, we throw a garbage value into boot.ini so the pc won’t boot the OS.  
> The customer then brings the pc in for repair and to make a payment. At which time we use a startup fix utility to repair the damaged boot.ini file.

You are assuming that the users are idiots. What’s to stop them from blowing away the hard drive and reinstalling the OS? You need something that runs in hardware i.e. the bios.

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