In message , Mayayana
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| So when I'm doing relatively little, and the fan suddenly ramps up and
| then down again, I'm not left wondering "what caused that?"
|

Who ya gonna call? Ghost Busters!

I don't have a suggestion, but I would note that it's
not always something racing that ramps up my fan.
We're having a heat wave lately. Sometimes it seems
to speed up just to catch up. Or I might just start a
program and that's enough to trigger it.

Agreed; it's quite hot here too (28.8 a foot from the PC). But it
usually _does_ seem to be related to CPU activity (in that if, when I
hear the fan take off, I click either Task Manager or SpeedFan to bring
them to the fore, I can see one of the cores is - or has just been -
busy).

If it were me I'd check task scheduler and services to
make sure nothing unnecessary is set to run. Also check
Autoruns. For instance, if you use Everything.exe then do
you really need indexing enabled? I use Agent Ransack and
haven't enabled indexing for many years. Since
everything.exe has its own indexing, that seems like all
the more reason to turn off the indexing service.

Well, I often leave Everything running, and it seems to manage usually
with near 00 CPU usage.

In general, unless you have a lot of self-updating going
on, there's rarely any reason for things to start of their
own accord.
I don't think I have anything at all on XP or 7 that
runs without me starting it. (I guess AV scans would

I wish I could (and did so wish back in XP days too). These days, you
need the brain of a Paul or Mayayana or VanguardLH [possibly all three
together!] to keep on top of all the processes the system runs, and to
know whether they're necessary (or what else will break if I stop them,
especially in the case of "services"). I do occasionally try, but feel
it's a losing battle of whack-a-mole. Especially in this heat (-:!

do that, but I also don't have AV installed.) On XP
I've even disabled Task Scheduler, though 7 doesn't
seem to allow me to do that. I have to do wacky things
like schedule an unwanted task for 3 AM when I won't
have the computer on.


I just have AVG - yes, I know, I know, but it does the job and ICBA to
argue the toss to find what else - on here, and I've never seen it grab
much CPU power. (I had Avira when on XP.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

That's how he [Dr. Who] seems to me. He's always been someone who gets the
/Guardian/. There are some parts of the universe where it's harder to get hold
of. - Peter Capaldi (current incumbent Doctor), RT 2016/11/26-12/2