Laptop getting hot - possible reason

You may need to get one of those aerosol cleaning air cans. I found mine was full up with dust and crap after 6 months and when I squirted that stuff around into the vents it cleaned a lot of it out.

Posted By: John in Texas on September 21st 2010 at 19:02:49

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techie question (General Chat) - doncoop, Sep 21, 17:16:43
- Laptop getting hot - possible reason (General Chat) - John in Texas, Sep 21, 19:02:49
- I hate Vista but have windows 7 at work and it's worse so I wont be upgrading. (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 21, 17:40:20
  - Should have just done an xp second addition, or an XP2010 (General Chat) - pants, Sep 21, 17:46:19
    - totally. XP is a great operating system. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Sep 21, 18:41:35
      - Vista's better (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 21, 18:47:14
        
        yeh? So when I buy a little netbook at xmas, what OS should I have? (General Chat) - shoddy, Sep 21, 18:55:11
        
        I've got a netbook with xp on (General Chat) - pants, Sep 21, 19:35:33
        
        Windows 7 almost certainly (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 21, 19:13:29
- nope, but have you considered getting a usb pad/riser, which has cooling fans on it? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Sep 21, 17:21:11
  - Summit like (General Chat) - pants, Sep 21, 17:25:10
    - thanks for the advice. loathe to buy something as its obviously the OS (General Chat) - doncoop, Sep 21, 20:03:21

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