Laptop overheating? Fan on constantly.....

[emmasam]

Why is my laptop fan on from virtually the moment I start it up, when it never used to be. Its on a laptop stand so free air passes under it, there doesnt appear to be much in the way of dust etc blocking the air vents, and it has only recently started doing this in the last couple of days. Seems like there is a million programmes running in the background that i cant see, when in fact all i have open is my email account, and IE.

It doesnt put itself to sleep either after any period of inactivity even though the power options are set to do so after 15 minutes.

I am on windows 7, using Internet Explorer.

Can anyone suggest what i might do to see if there is a problem, and if so how i might rectify it?

Grateful for any help

thanks

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

It looks like you may have more than one problem here.

The first may well be overheating due to dust that cannot be seen through the air vents.

Try downloading speedfan and installing it, this program will find and show the various temperatures inside.

 

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

 

Post the temperature results you see please.

 

The other problems may be malware related, so I have to ask which antivirus you are using, do you have any general malware removing programs such as Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D or similar, also which firewall?

Have you run any scans with them recently and what were the results?

 

Nev.