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How hot is your Laptop?

How many rea­ders have a lap­top? I would say alot, they are much chea­per and much more func­tio­nal then the lap­tops of the old days.  Some are almost as cheap as a desk­top.  That cou­pled with how easy a wire­less net­work is to set up and how many public area offer free WiFi for on the road, makes a lap­top a good invest­ment now a days.

But have you tried to ever sit with one on your lap some­ti­mes?  Well ima­gine the tem­pe­ra­ture inside the case and ima­ging what it is doing to your CPU(s).

For those that may not be aware of what high tem­pe­ra­tu­res can do, it cause cause hard­ware pro­blems or even cause soft­ware to freeze up and crash.

To see the CPU tem­pe­ra­ture, there is a few free pro­grams out there.  The first is Real Temp.  It is a small down­load that you ins­tall and bam you see the temp of your Intel processor(s).  It does show a lot of infor­ma­tion, but for most users you will need only the mini­mum and maxi­mum temp, the current CPU load, and the ther­mal indi­ca­tors.  Another I have used in the past is Speed­Fan.  I per­so­nally like Speed­Fan bet­ter, I find it gives bet­ter infor­ma­tion as well as infor­ma­tion con­cer­ning S.M.A.R.T. hard drives.

For Macs, though I can test it, there is a uti­lity for Mac OSX — smcFanControl2.  If you are a Mac user and try this, please let me know how it works.

For the heat to your legs, I recom­mend get­ting a lap­top cushion you can find almost anywhere, or I have a bel­kin base that actually has a fan that runs cold air up at the bot­tom of your lap­top to cool it down. My base usually drops the CPU temp about 5–6 degrees Cel­sius.  I highly recom­mend loo­king for one.

Windows PC Device Manager–Use This Good Utility

Author: John Mowatt

Device Mana­ger is built into the Win­dows ope­ra­ting sys­tem and shows you a graphi­cal desc­rip­tion of all the hard­ware ins­ta­lled on your Win­dows PC.To open Device Mana­ger on your Win­dows com­pu­ter, you need to do the the follo­wing: Open Con­trol Panel, and click on Per­for­mance and Maintenance->System. The Sys­tem Pro­per­ties menu will be shown. Click on Hard­ware ->Device Mana­ger. Device Mana­ger can be used to carry out many tasks rela­ted to mana­ge­ment of hard­ware and it’s dri­vers. We have lis­ted some of these below.

1.To Ins­tall New Hard­ware.
You can ins­tall a plug and play device, such as a flash drive or a USB mouse. After first con­nec­ting the device to the com­pu­ter go to Device Mana­ger and in the Action menu click on Scan For Hard­ware Chan­ges. This only works with plug and play hard­ware. For any other type of hard­ware just click on Add Har­ware in your con­trol panel.

2. To View Any Hard­ware Pro­blems On Your Win­dows PC
Device Mana­ger, will show any hard­ware pro­blem with an icon to iden­tify it. If there is a pro­blem with any hard­ware device dri­ver, it will be indi­ca­ted by a yellow trian­gle with a black exc­la­ma­tion mark in it.

3. To Ena­ble or Disa­ble Ins­ta­lled Hard­ware.
If you are not using a hard­ware item you may want to disa­ble it, espe­cially if it is con­flic­ting with some other hard­ware and cau­sing pro­blems. If you need to disa­ble a hard­ware item you can right click it in Device mana­ger and then click Disable.If you right click on any hard­ware which has been disa­bled, the Ena­ble option will be shown. You can click on this to ena­ble the device.

4. View Dri­ver Details,Update, Roll­back, Or Unins­tall Dri­vers. To see the details of the hard­ware dri­ver, click on the Dri­ver tab in the Pro­per­ties page, then click on the Dri­ver Details but­ton to get the infor­ma­tion required.If there are are pro­blems with the hard­ware device dri­ver, you may want to update it or perhaps unins­tall it. You can do this by clic­king on the Update Dri­ver but­ton or the Unins­tall button.If a recently ins­ta­lled dri­ver update is cau­sing pro­blems, click on the Roll Back Dri­ver but­ton to res­tore the old dri­ver files.

5.To Get Infor­ma­tion On Ins­ta­lled Hard­ware And Dri­vers.
Dou­ble click on hard­ware shown in Device Mana­ger and the Pro­per­ties page will be shown. The Pro­per­ties page may have three or more tabs.The first is the Gene­ral tab. On this, you get infor­ma­tion about the device, its maker, loca­tion, and status.You will also find here the Trou­bleshoot but­ton. If the hard­ware is not wor­king pro­perly, click on this but­ton and launch a trou­bleshoo­ting wizard which will iden­tify the rea­son for the problem.If you need more details on the hard­warte you can click on the Details tab. On the drop-down list you can view its details.

6.To Change Hard­ware Set­tings
If you have hard­ware device or resource allo­ca­tion pro­blems, change the con­fi­gu­ra­tion of the hard­ware by using the Advan­ced and Resour­ces tabs.Be care­ful in using the Advan­ced and Resour­ces tabs. Impro­per chan­ges to resource allo­ca­tions or other set­tings may disa­ble your hard­ware and cause serious pro­blems on your computer.Finally after making requi­red chan­ges with Device Mana­ger you should use a good registry repair tool to scan for registry pro­blems and to correct them easily and quickly.

Slow running,freezing or crashing of your PC is often due to a registry pro­blem. This is a result of nume­rous unec­ces­sary files and data frag­ments cau­sing bloa­ting and corrup­tion of the registry. The best way to correct this is by using a registry clea­ner which can be down­loa­ded from the inter­net. We tes­ted a num­ber of the popu­lar registry repair tools and found that while they all did the job they varied con­si­de­rably in per­for­mance and ease of use.

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