Power Hog

[Paul Lady]

My laptop running W2K has turned into a power hog. It takes 70 watts now
and it used to take 40 watts. The fan runs all the time!

I've tried virus scan for power virus, reducing the processes running to
bare minimum, no luck.

Any ideas?

TIA, pjl

 

[David H. Lipman]

Re: Power Hog

From: "Paul Lady" <pjl@comcast.net>

| My laptop running W2K has turned into a power hog. It takes 70 watts now
| and it used to take 40 watts. The fan runs all the time!
|
| I've tried virus scan for power virus, reducing the processes running to
| bare minimum, no luck.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| TIA, pjl
|

"power virus" ?
No such thing!


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Dave
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