It tends to break things. See the link below.
https://www.howtogeek.com/273513/why-you-shouldnt-use-anti-spying-tools-for-windows-10/
As to thermal paste, there should be a very thin covering of the paste over the entire surface, not a blob. Just enough so the heatsink and processor make contact to the paste over their full surface. There are plenty of videos on the net showing how it's done.
In all your discussions about heat, you don't mention using compressed air to clean out the inside of the computer. That's certainly required to blow out all the dust from around the processor, heatsink, power supply, and all vents and fans. If you've already done that, then make sure all your fans are actually running by removing the case cover and checking.. If that's fine, then I recommend testing the system with the case cover off and a house fan pointed at the insides. Run it that way and see if the temps come down.
Hope this helps.
Grif
hey, thx for reading.
i think im having some issues with my rig, after i reinstalled windows 10 yesterday the temparatures seems to have gone up from around 45 to 58-60 just from surfing chrome. when playing overwatch im almost up to 70. its never been this high when playing overwatch. used to sit in mid 50 low 60.
i reapplied thermal paste twise in 1 day, i think i used too much the first time, so i took some of it off and smeared it out over the surface of my i5 instead of just leaving a blob and letting it spread out on its own, it had little effect, im seeing 60-62 degrees when writing this, the only other program im running besides chrome is msi command center.
im pretty sure drivers and bios are up to date and i turned off onedrive.
playing overwatch today i got some fps drops to the point where i could actually feel it, that has never happened before.
my specs:
cpu - i5 4690k (im running stock cooler, dont hate me, im poor)
case - fractal design define r5
motherboard - msi z97 gaming 5
gpu - msi geforce gtx 960 2g
ssd - crucial bx200 2.5
ram - hyperx fury ddr3 16G
psu - corsair cx750m
asus dvd writer dwr-24f1mt
old 750g hdd from my hp laptop
windows 10 home edition
avg antivirus full version
malwarebytes full version
i installed destroy windows spying as soon as i had my com it up and running again, from what i could tell it seemed legit.
and i turned off every app off i could find but im still getting higher temp then before my reinstall

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