The first question is what does your wife use her laptop for? Does she have "special" programs that run on Windows only that she downloaded, such as Quicken, TurboTax, anything like that or does all she do is online things, surf the web, banking, Facebook, etc.
Depending on the answer she has many options, if she has "special" programs that run on Windows only, then a new PC might be needed.
If all she does is online things then a Chromebook might work, A chromebook never gets a virus, everything is backed up on the web (I.E. cloud storage) and you can do spreadsheets and write documents (I.E. read in Excel or Word docs and save them in Chromebook form.
A third option is to convert her existing PC to Linux. (I've converted over a dozen of people here in The Villages to Linux Mint 19). Linux is another operating system. It has an office set of programs that is compatible with Windows and you don't have to worry about viruses, it will never bug you to do updates (you do them when you have time, if you do them at all). I use Linux Mint because it is the most Windows ish. By that I mean that once see it work you say to yourself, "gee, that's kind of like Windows".
I'll be giving a talk on Linux at the Eisenhower Center on July 15th at 1PM. Of the dozen of people that I've converted, no one has asked to go back to Windows.
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