Laptop is Hot/High CPU Usage

[Fahn† 0]

Recently my laptop has a tendency to get very hot. There can only be one browser window open or an IRC window, and the fan will be going full steam and it feels very hot. Right now my laptop is using 50-65% cpu and this window is the only thing open. I don't know how to fix it. It also happens when I run anything, and may even do it while I'm running nothing. I keep my laptop well ventilated so the fan intake shouldn't be blocked.

[Pikachu† 0]

50-60% of your processor will cause a significant rise in temperature

[Fahn† 0]

50-60% of your processor will cause a significant rise in temperature

 

Yeah, but it shouldn't be that high when all I'm doing is opening a web-page!

[Pikachu† 0]

I would probably try to uninstall your web browser, then reinstall it. Maybe there is a bug. Sometimes applications become corrupt and use way more cpu than they should. :dodgy:

[Hybrilynx† 0]

theres still that disk defragmenter thing and disk clean up that can probably help like very little. the disk defragmenter pretty much cleans stuff up in the background, and disk clean up pretty much erases a bunch of stuff that usually isnt important, like the recycle bin.

[Fahn† 0]

I would probably try to uninstall your web browser' date=' then reinstall it. Maybe there is a bug. Sometimes applications become corrupt and use way more cpu than they should. :dodgy:

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I shut my computer down and allowed an update to install (I usually keep my laptop on without rebooting for weeks/months at a time) and it seems to have resolved itself. Perhaps shutting my computer down every night is a good idea. :blush:

[Pikachu† 0]

/me thumbs up

[Flechmen 0]

Yeah, laptops aren't designed to be run like that...

[Faolan† 0]

when was the last time you took a can of air to it?

[Fahn† 0]

when was the last time you took a can of air to it?

 

Never :s