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Have an HP laptop? Having overheating problems coupled with poor battery performance? HP's wireless manager may be the cause of all of your problems. An experiment done by "TomWij" over at superuser.com shows that it will repeatedly look for new connections, causing your CPU load to be much higher than with the process suspended. This leads to overheating and poor battery performance. The simple fix? Uninstall the wireless manager. This may make the wireless on/off switch on your laptop not work, but you can shut off the wireless card in the mobility center, accessed simply by pressing the Windows key and X at the same time. Another fix is updating the drivers. HP's most recent ones should solve the problem. While you're downloading that one, make sure to update the rest of your drivers. Newer driver versions normally result in better performance. Check out more details on the experiment here.