Well it amazed me that this is a typical issue. My Toshiba M400 the other day was running really warm during normal use, 60° C-70° C. So of course I had to take the whole thing apart and inspect. The first thing I did was to clean out the FAN, again a big yuck! Then I took off the CPU fan and heat sink and removed all the old CPU paste. I then cleaned the surfaces with Isopropyl alcohol, re-applied some new thermal paste, making sure that it is evenly coating the CPU and then re-assembled the notebook. So now my idle temperatures are more inline with when I got the notebook, 35° C-45° C. Here is a good article I found on the topic .
Well it has been over a year since Vista has been released and I have been struggling with poor file copy performance between my Vista machines on a GB switch, since about December. Poor Network Performance with Windows Vista (RTM) Poor GB Network Performance on Vista back! =( Poor Network Performance on Vista resolved? I don't know how I missed the article about MMCSS (Multimedia Class Scheduler Service) but after reading into it, it seemed to fit my performance issue...my stability issues were due to old network drivers. If you have a Broadcom onboard nic, you should definitely upgrade the drivers. Mark Russinovich uncovered that MMMCSS is hardcoded to throttle your network performance to 10,000 frames per second or about 15Mb/sec on standard ethernet with 1500 byte frames. Here is the solution . I have disabled the MMCSS service, updated the registry to remove the Windows Audio dependency and network performance is back to where it should be! CPU utilization...