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‎05-16-2019 01:21 AM

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Product: HP 14 ac153tx
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Since the past few days I am facing a very peculiar problem - ANT INFESTATION 

Daily I have been forced to keep my laptop under the sunshine for about an hour.

Is there any sure shot permanent fix for it.

 

P.S I have not been eating near my laptop nor bring any foodstuffs close by.

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‎05-16-2019 12:08 PM

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@pradeep_lobo 

Sorry, but no.  Laptops have all kinds of openings in them, usually air vents, and there is really no way to plug those to keep ants out without the laptops overheating.

 

About all I can suggest is setting ant bait traps near your laptop and leaving it out for awhile.

 

You could, of course, pay someone a LOT of money to disassemble it, clean it out, spray it with some kind of insecticide and reassemble it -- but there is no guarantee that will work, and if it does not, the ants will return.



I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP

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‎05-16-2019 12:08 PM

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@pradeep_lobo 

Sorry, but no.  Laptops have all kinds of openings in them, usually air vents, and there is really no way to plug those to keep ants out without the laptops overheating.

 

About all I can suggest is setting ant bait traps near your laptop and leaving it out for awhile.

 

You could, of course, pay someone a LOT of money to disassemble it, clean it out, spray it with some kind of insecticide and reassemble it -- but there is no guarantee that will work, and if it does not, the ants will return.



I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
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