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Laptop running too hot now?? *sigh*
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thomas234
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Hmm well what would you know, I solved it myself!!
I ran 'top' and got a list of processes, realised that one related to do with aMSN was using 98% CPU, so I got it's PID, typed kill <PID Number>, and voila my CPU is down to 59 degrees!
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