Soph came to ours for dinner recently and she had her laptop with her. Jbird has tried to clean its hard drive many times to make it run smoother. Soph and I had given it up for a loss. It took forever to open any program and it would have meltdowns after an hour or so of use. Skype wouldn't even open. In the middle of a conversation about buying more ram and what it had done for our computers, Jbird decided he'd open her laptop's back and give it a little clean on the chance that it would help it. When he got to the fan compartment, he found a 2cm by 1 cm by 1cm cubic mass of dust and stuff which had built up and was like a felted solid piece. It was pretty gross. So he threw that out, closed it up, and can you guess the good news? The problem is solved, the computer runs like a new machine and she can have international skype conversations with no problem at all. We tried to do the same to our laptops but the fans are impossible to get to. I did manage to chip off a critical little piece of plastic in my attempt to get in there so I've had to tape down a little corner flap to keep it closed. Luckily our laptops are running better than Soph's was.
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