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[astri13]

Sigh, the ventilation on my laptop turns itself on and runs for hours. And it`s freaking loud. Now I don`t think that`s normal, the running all the time that is. The noise seems to be a trademark of this model. Also my working speed - everything I try to do, opening files, programes, shifting files, running certain operations - everything takes a shitload of time suddenly. I freed up more space on the harddrive, more than enough really, still not much effect. I`m having the sneaking suspicion my compi runs programes it isn`t supposed to and slows me down that way but how can I figure this out? Any ideas? I could deal with the slowness but the neverending ventilation is unbearable.

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[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I'm no expert, but for the slowness, it sounds like maybe you need more memory. Can you add memory?

It also sounds like maybe the fan is just loud. I had that problem with my desktop and had to get new fans. (These fans started getting louder and seemed to run all the time. I think my fans actually do run all the time, but I never noticed until they got really loud.) Can you replace the fan on your computer?

To stop programs you don't need from running in the background on your computer you can do this:

Start>Run Then type in: msconfig

From there click on the "startup" tab.

You will get a list of all the programs that run in the background. I shut off stuff like Quicktime and every little thingamajig if I know what it is and know I don't need it to run on startup and stay running. If I don't know what it is, I leave it alone.

[astri13.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I`ll see if that helps because seriously the noise is making me crazy. However the notebook is getting up there in years so it`s probably just signs of impending machine death. :/