Re: Laptop overheating?
Thank you both.
The laptop sits on a hard surface, so there is no lack of space for air circulation.
There may, of course, be dust inside.
What makes this more intriguing is that the fans and hot air begins soon after having switched the thing on. I would have thought that it would take some time for the heat to build up, whatever the cause.
Another thing that complicates matters is that now, after having been using the laptop for a little over an hour, the temperatures recorded by SpeedFan have reduced substantially to between 40 and 50 C.
The fans are still running, but more slowly and the air being expelled is much less not.
I am still using Chrome and have not opened any other programme.
However, I think I may have identified the culprit! Malwarebytes now seems to have stopped running, according to Task Manager, which would point the finger at that programme.
I must assume that this programme automatically runs some sort of scan when the computer starts up, but the heavy use of memory seems to continue (see my first post) even after the scan is complete.
Perhaps I'm worrying unnecessarily.