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Tasks remaining in manager
Last January my PC CPU fan began racing unpredictably. I removed it and re-applied heatsink compound. It's running much better now, usually staying in the 50s, and when programs occasionally demand more of the CPU, the temperature will rise to the 70s, maybe 80.
I noticed, though, that after using MS Word and printing, and closing MS Word, the MS Word and printer driver tasks remained in the task manager, and the fan would race again with the temperature approaching the maximum in the 90s. When I removed those two tasks, the temperature immediately subsided to the 50s and 60s.
Could there be a connection here between the Word and printer driver tasks remaining and the racing fan? A connection between the racing fan and the remaining tasks didn't occur to me until now.