Free software to cool down your hot lap top

Thomson — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:24:03 +0000

Most of the people face the problem of their laptop being heated up. Here you can read about, download and use a free software tool to fix the overheating problem. Using this free software called speed fan you can control the speed of your laptop’s cooling fan. This free software allows you to monitor the temperature of your laptop’s hard disk and motherboard. You can use S.M.A.R.T or SCSI attributes for this purpose. Custom events can be created to handle all the events automatically.
You can down load speed fan from the website of speed fan.

After downloading the executable file double click the setup file to agree with the licence terms.

Browse the location to which the tool is to be installed and click install.

On successful installation you will get a message like installation has been completed successfully.

Now launch the software by double clicking the shortcut icon added to the desktop during installation. You can see a screen like this upon launching the software. Click on the readings tab to know the CPU usage and CPU temperature.

Speed fan will automatically detect the hardware configuration of your laptop. But you can configure by the click of the configure button.

A few tips to avoid overheating of your laptops:

1) Clean out your laptop fan often.

2) Purchase a laptop cooler to increase the life of your laptop.

3) Do not block the air intake and exhaust vents of your laptop.

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