Have you ever encountered a buzzing sound from your laptop fan, especially in the summer? Besides cooling your laptop, optimizing certain settings can prevent the fan from making excessive noise. This article mainly discusses several settings in Windows 10 that cause the system to continuously request resources, leading to high load and consequently, noisy fan operation.
1. Disable System Diagnostics
The primary function of “Diagnostic Tracking” is to continuously collect system information while using the computer, which consumes system resources and increases CPU load, thus causing the fan to spin rapidly and create noise.
Open the Start menu, type “services,” and open the matching service item.
2. On the right side, find Diagnostic Policy, Diagnostic Service Host, and Diagnostic System Host.
3. Double-click each of these three items, change the startup type to “Disabled” on their respective pages, and click OK to apply.
4. Similarly, in the services, find the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry item and change the startup type to “Disabled”. (This service is an upgraded version of Diagnostic Tracking, collecting information for your use.)
5. Disable P2P Update Sharing
Type “Settings” in the Start menu and open the matching settings item.
Open Update & Security, and under “Windows Update”, open “Advanced options”. Scroll down to find “Delivery Optimization” and click to enter (for Windows 10 version 1709).
In the “Delivery Optimization” section, click the slider button under “Allow downloads from other PCs” to turn it off (as shown in the picture).
These tips mainly target some built-in Windows features that are not commonly used or have little utility. By disabling them, we can save system resources and thus reduce the fan’s speed. In normal usage, many users may have many unnecessary programs running in the background after system startup, which also continuously consumes system resources. Therefore, users can utilize some optimization software to disable startup items or manually disable some startup items selectively by entering the MSConfig command during operation.