Re: power connector overheating

Thanks for your insight. Here is my rationale:

John Doue wrote:

I fail to see your rational. Installing a new disk has nothing to do with keeping or loosing your data, and will not solve the overheating problem. Let us take a rational look at the situation:

A new disk costs very little these days. Windows is clogged up, so a clean install will grease the PCs wheels. The rationale of changing the hard disk rather than backing up data and reformatting the disk is that if I screw up the new install, I only need to put the old disk back in.


1/ you state that vents are not obstructed. Did you open your laptop to check that? My guess is, no.

Good idea. I'll do that in the morning.

2/ If CPU usage is only a few percent and no program shows high CPU usage, then your windows installation is not to blame. Reinstalling would achieve nothing in this respect.

The windows is running very much more slowly than when the machine was new, hence my idea of doing a new install. Loads of programs I have uninstalled (or thought I had) still have visible traces. Boot takes for ever. Even coming out of hibernation takes ages. And that's with only a couple of progams running.

3/ To check memory, close all running programs. Memory use is not a heat factor, at least practically speaking.

4/ Hot power lead. Since your fan runs very often, this may be normal, depending on your definition of "hot". The lead should not be real hot, but this might depend on your specific machine, which I am not familiar with.

Yesterday it burnt my fingers to touch. Today it doesn't seem so bad though.

Now, first things first: based on your description of the heat problem, I suspect the fan vent is obstructed. Someone familiar with your machine can help you determine the best way to check this.

Second, making sense of those startup programs in Msconfig may be offputting as you say, but it would be well invested time to explore the subject and it is no as hard as you might imagine. Searching the Internet for info is easy and fast.

I've just counted the process running (using taskmanager) - 75. God knows what they all do. There are 54 startup programs listed in Msconfig.

I suggest you do not decide on solutions when you do not understand the problem, no irony intended.

Didn't you just suggest it would be a good learning exercise to familiarise myself with all the obscure programs in the Msconfig start?
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