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Windows 7 running much cooler since the last update?

Mar 30, 2015 1:03AM PDT

My HP notebook has always had temperature issues since I bought it about 3 years ago. I use a core-temperature monitor on my desktop which gives me a real-time temperature of the 4 cores on my taskbar. The fan and fins have been kept clean fairly regularly, but it's a constant job to keep the system from overheating and shutting down when running processor-taxing applications.

Since I bought it, there have been times when the system runs very hot for no apparent reason for several days, but most of the time, I was able to keep it within limits without shutting down programs.

Lately, I've noticed the system running much cooler in general than it has typically run in the past 3 years. I was used to seeing core temps in the 80Cs most of the time, but now I'm seeing them mostly in the 60s, even when I'm running heavily processor-dependent applications.

Could the latest update have made the machine that much more efficient?

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