Computer overheating, games causing computer to crash, and Windows Aero missing

[Anubis678]

My Computer:

Dell XPS M1530 (laptop)
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T9500 @ 2.60 GHz
4GB of RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)

The computer is roughly one year old.

Problem 1:
My laptop heats up very fast. Even if I'm just browsing the internet, the laptop becomes noticeably hot to the touch. After just 15-30 minutes of gaming, the laptop is almost too hot to touch.

Problem 2:
My laptop has been running a lot slower lately. With 4 GB of RAM, I would expect much better performance.

Problem 3:
Recently, I have been unable to play games on my laptop for longer than 10-20 minutes without my computer crashing (I assume it's overheating due to the games).

Problem 4:
My computer crashed today (as a result of playing [i]1701 A.D.[/i]). When I rebooted it, my computer's color scheme was set to Windows Vista Basic, instead of Windows Aero. When I tried to change it back to Windows Aero, I found that Windows Aero was not a listed color scheme.

[Prismatex]

[B]Heat:[/B]
Is the laptop on a solid surface that isn't blocking the vents? If not, put it on one. If so, get some Dust-Off and blow out the vents/fans.
[B]Slowdowns:[/B]
Run a virus scan with AVG, MalwareBytes, NOD32, or the like. Also run a spyware scan with Spybot Search & Destroy.

[mysticsage]

For the slowdown problem I agree with Prismatex

Also for the heat, on top of what he said, you can get speedfan to run your fan at 100% all the time (however, if noise is an issue I wouldn't do that)

[url]http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php[/url]

[Anubis678]

Hm... thanks for the advice, I guess. Any idea how to get Windows Aero back?

I've been chatting with Dell Support... a lot of fucking help they've been :rolleyes:

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Also, I've been trying to run diagnostics, but my computer shuts down half-way through the test.

Fuck :argh:

[Anubis678]

Issue resolved (kinda)

[Drakoman]

[QUOTE=Anubis678;16100288]Dell
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:sax: