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[Dayze]

Originally Posted by chasedude

Just curious if you've cracked the case and given it a good dusting inside too. There's always an accumulation of crap on the processors heatsink. I just take an air compressor and blow it out, outside of course, and plug it back in. By doing this the core temp will go down and give me a little increase in speed.

that's the other thing; it's a lap top and gets really hot sometimes when nothing is really going on...

[chasedude]

Originally Posted by Dayze

that's the other thing; it's a lap top and gets really hot sometimes when nothing is really going on...

I had a laptop that was running really hot and fans at full blast. I installed process explorer on it to view my cpu usage and found my lexmark printer software was using 50% of my cpu when doing nothing. I assumed that that program had a memory leak and needed dumping. After the uninstall it now runs cool and quiet. I still blow the air through the exhaust port on my cpu occasionally too with the compressor. Alot of dust can collect on the cooling fan in laptops too.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by chasedude

I had a laptop that was running really hot and fans at full blast. I installed process explorer on it to view my cpu usage and found my lexmark printer software was using 50% of my cpu when doing nothing. I assumed that that program had a memory leak and needed dumping. After the uninstall it now runs cool and quiet. I still blow the air through the exhaust port on my cpu occasionally too with the compressor. Alot of dust can collect on the cooling fan in laptops too.

cool; I'm running an HP wireless printer that never gets used.

if one were to turn off a printer from a process standpoint, would they be able to print if need be? so like, turn it off since 99% of time we never use it, but if we did need to - still be able to print?

[chasedude]

Originally Posted by Dayze

cool; I'm running an HP wireless printer that never gets used.

if one were to turn off a printer from a process standpoint, would they be able to print if need be? so like, turn it off since 99% of time we never use it, but if we did need to - still be able to print?

Print spooling is about the only process windows uses to handle print jobs and it only starts when you send a job through the queue. Most of the problems created today are the additional software loaded with most home deskjets.

The services I had problems with from my lexmark software wouldn't let me close the process. My only solution was to uninstall it.

I miss the old days when all you had to do was install a driver and done. Too much unnecessary software bogging down the system only creates problems in the end.