windows gets squirrely after laptop has warmed up

This is a HP Compaq Presario C700 laptop OS win 7 Home 32bit. When I 1st start up the laptop cold, The laptop is fine. After the laptop has been running for a while the laptop starts getting squirrely. Everything starts taking more time to start, reload screens, the email client takes longer to download and sometimes stalls, same thing with Firefox and Internet Explorer and games. The case over the HDD gets very hot if I don't have the cooling fans on under the laptop and the cooling fan attached to the air exhaust port pulling air out. I have taken the laptop appart and made sure that the air ducts are clean. And I used msconfig to turn a few prog's that were running in the background off when Windows starts. Turning off those prog's helps. I don't know what else to do other then to see if the cpu is over clocked. I am not sure were to check on Win7 for that. I can't afford to replace this laptop right now. I am open to any ideas.


Steve

I just did do a clean install of the OS because I saw a neet looking prog and I though I would give it a try. It turned out to be a trojan horse. That prog made my laptop act like R.2.D.2 (from StarWars) hiped up on meth. So I had no choise but to wipe the C HDD partition clean and start over again. As far as the over heating goes. Yes the laptop has gotten hot enough for to force a shutdown. That's why the laptop now sits on a cooling fan stand and I have an other fan attached to air exhaust port on the side of the laptop, pulling hot air out from the laptop. The fans help some but not enough. To Roland JD I don't have a clue as to What make and model is the external usb cooling assembly? I got it on ebay

AmericanPharaoh said:

Hello Steve,

I usually don't recommend this right off, but in your case; it may be a shorter route to resolve your issue by performing a Clean Install of your OS.

Your HP/ Compaq Laptop should have a built-in HDD Recovery Partition with a "clean copy" of your Operating System. You can Backup any personal files to a DVD or USB flash drive. Then do a reinstall of OS to factory settings.

A Clean Install should eliminate any possibility of your overheating issue being software related.

Has the Laptop ever shutdown on its own due to overheating?

Do you know how to check your CPU and Memory usage in Task Manager? R/click on clock, choose Start Task Manager. In Task Manager, click on Performance Tab. What is the percentage of CPU and Memory usage displayed there... while you system idles.

Let us know, how you'd like to proceed.

John

Hey reble,

Trojans Horses are easy to remove. Just reboot into Safe Mode and run a couple of specialized cleaners.

"Then Bob's your Uncle."

That prog made my laptop act like R.2.D.2 (from StarWars) hyped-up on meth.



Glad you got it sorted.
John

I still have the overheating problem, just not as bad.

AmericanPharaoh said:

Hey reble,

Trojans Horses are easy to remove. Just reboot into Safe Mode and run a couple of specialized cleaners.

"Then Bob's your Uncle."

That prog made my laptop act like R.2.D.2 (from StarWars) hyped-up on meth.



Glad you got it sorted.
John

Please, download the free version of Speccy and post a screenshot of the results.
https://www.piriform.com/speccy
Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums

Here's what I found for your Computers original specs.
Gateway MD2614u Specs - CNET

It appears your Computer is under powered. If your running OEM software, it would be full of Bloatware, causing a load on your systems limited resources.

After you reinstalled the OS, what programs have you added back?

What Antivirus and Firewall do you use?

John

AmericanPharaoh, check the very 1st line in the original post on this thread. The Gateway MD6214u died in Jan of this year. Bad main voltage regular on the motherboard It got scraped. I now have HP Compaq Presario C700 laptop.

AmericanPharaoh said:

Doing a Google search for your computer shows it as originally having Windows Vista 64-bit installed.

Do you know your Laptops history? Did you buy it used or upgraded it yourself?

What method are you using to reinstall your OS, from a HDD partition, OEM software from your System Builder, or?

Here's a screen shot of your present "System Specs."