Fan Control is an excellent free utility that lets you create custom fan curves, monitor temps, and quiet your system.

PCWorld reveals that laptop manufacturers include hidden utility apps offering advanced controls for battery charging, display color gamuts, fan speeds, and audio settings not available in Windows.

Some users have complained that their Windows laptop fan keeps running constantly. Even if the laptop is idle, the laptop fan starts running continuously at full speed or high speed with loud noise.

If an MSI Afterburner fan curve looks saved but the GPU ignores it, the first question is whether Afterburner is actually in ...