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HP Laptop runs extremely HOT
I have a HP Pavilion dv7 laptop and my fan always seems to be running at a high speed and the temperature is always extremely hot. Well let me retract that "always" remark and say most of the time. I have done my research and have checked the regular symptoms, and none of them seem to be the cause. Here is my setup:
The laptop is sitting on a wooden desk with a book propping up the back of it letting more air under it. I am sure the book is not blocking any vents either. It is running on AC power. All the vents are clean of dirt/lint. There are no huge processes running in the background. Why as of right now I only have IExplorer running to write this and the fan is screaming and it will burn my fingers if touch the bottom for too long. I close all programs and have minimal background programs running when I am not using it (but still have the computer running) and I can hear the fan speed up for 15 min. or so then slow down then randomly repeat. I ran Malware Bites Anti malware and it came back clean.
I open the taskmanager when the fan is screaming and it does have a 80%-100% CPU usage, but not a single process causing it. Most of the time it is svchost.exe "hogging" the CPU and it one of the many other svchost.exe processes running. Right now it is iexplorer.exe causing the max load on the CPU varying between 40% & 60% usage. Any suggestions on what may be causing this or how to fix it?