I've had my laptop for about a year and a half now, and its never given me a weird problem like this (it started three days ago):
About ten minutes after I turn it on, all of a sudden, it doesn't matter what I'm doing, the little processor (?) fan turns on like the computer is working really hard on something. I close every window and program that I can see running, but the fan doesn't turn off (even after hours) and EVERYTHING runs really laggy and slow: internet, games, opening My Computer or the start menu, etc. I usually get frustrated and turn off the computer.
Anybody have any help? I don't know how to see what programs the CPU is working on, anything you can say to help me out would be greatly appreciated
Specs (that I know of): Pentium 4, 2 GHZ processor, 20 gig hard drive, Nvidia Geforce 4, 256 MB of RAM.