How to Clean a Laptop Fan: (and Improve Performance)

Unfortunately, despite your careful maintenance, your laptop fans can stop working, and the laptop will start overheating.
If you want to prevent your laptop from overheating, it’s important that you clean your laptop fan.
Unfortunately, cleaning your laptop fan is not as simple as it sounds, and it’s an intricate process.
That means that, if you want to clean your laptop fan, it’s important that you know all the techniques that you can use.
Fortunately, in this article, we will explore all the techniques that you can use to clean your laptop fan.

• A laptop fan is one of the most important parts of a laptop.
• If your laptop fan is not working, your laptop will not get enough air.
• Cleaning your laptop fan is very easy.
• All you need is some compressed air and a few minutes of your time.

Perform a Clean Boot

1. Press the Windows key + R shortcut, enter msconfig in the text field, and click OK.
2. Select the Services tab, select the Hide all Microsoft services check box, and click Disable all.
   
3. Select the Startup tab, select the Hide all Microsoft services check box, and click Disable all.
4. Select the General tab, click the Open Task Manager button, and close the Task Manager window.
5. Click the Apply and OK buttons, and restart Windows.

Perform a System Reset

1. Press the Windows key followed by the S key.
2. Type reset and select Reset this PC from the list of results.
   
3. Choose the Keep my files option.
4. Click Reset to confirm.

Disable the Hardware Acceleration

1. Open your browser and go to Settings.
2. Select Options.
   
3. Locate the Advanced section and disable hardware acceleration.
4. Restart your browser.
5. Clear the Cache
   Open your browser and go to Settings.
6. Select History.
   
7. Select Clear browsing data.
8. Check the Cache checkbox.
9. Click the Clear data button.

Turn off Windows Defender

1. Navigate to the Windows Taskbar, right-click on the Windows Defender icon, and select Open Windows Defender from the menu.
2. Click on Let’s check for updates.
3. Click on the button next to Update now.

Update your Graphics Driver

1. You can update your graphics driver from the GeForce Experience software.
2. Open GeForce Experience.
   
3. Click on the Settings tab.
4. Click on Update Drivers.
5. Select Search automatically for drivers and install the drivers.
6. Restart your PC to check if the issue is resolved.