# Cooling fan control?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cooling-fan-control/116314>\
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**Created:** [July 16, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cooling-fan-control/116314 "2004-07-16T11:14:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kajinku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@Kajinku](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kajinku)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cooling-fan-control/116314/1 "2004-07-16T11:14:42Z")

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Hello,

The problem I’m having with my laptop are the cooling fans. If it gets too hot in there, they just don’t cool enough, which results in a freezing Windows XP. The only thing I can do is reboot. I can assure you, that’s not funny in the middle of your work.

Anyway, I called the technical support and such, and they’re going to replace the fans for other ones, for free. It’s a common problem with this laptop they say. That’s nice (the free thing), but I’m just not ready yet to leave my laptop there for 5 days. I got work to do first.

So, my question to you guys is: is there a program out there to manually control the speed of the cooling fans? I know this is possible with Unix, but I don’t know about Windows XP…

Thanks in advance!