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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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Another trick is to check the running processes

[(Anonymous)]

Do control alt delete and bring up taksmanager and then google each thing you don't recognize. Also you can see whats using what and look into the big consumers of your system resources. You can always kill a process and if you kill something you shouldn't you will then need to kill the power and restart since killing a critical process may make it unresponsive. But no biggie, hold the power till it dies and turn it back on. Remember to research your suspicions before you act via google.

Re: Another trick is to check the running processes

[astri13.livejournal.com]

My usual task manager will show me only the obviously run programes but I did install a Security Task Manager and apparently myriads of stupid programes run sneakily in the background, slowing my computer down to snail-pace. I halted them and speed is good again but the ventilation is still a problem. :/ However since my Windows is giving me all kinds of crap lately, I may need to reinstall anyway.