I have had my T440s for 5 months now. However, I have been using it only for 3 months because the first 2 months were spent trying to solve other problems.
Since yesterday however, I have been consciously aware that the fan is spinning almost all the time.
I am posting this to ask if the fan spinning could be due to 1) any program I am running, or 2) an application I downloaded and tried installing yesterday (to be explained in more detail below). Actually, what I am primarily worried about is 2) as I did not know what I was doing (I am not proficient in high-level computer stuff).
Now I know that peoples first reaction is that I am running programs that consume the CPU and therefore the fan has to run to cool the parts. But that is evidently not the case. I have checked my Task Manager and it shows that there are 136 processes, with CPU usage being around 5% and Physical Memory being 41%. I have also attached a screenshot of my Task Manager - I have sorted the processes according to Memory (Private Working Set), and took a screenshot of the top portion. Please take a look and let me know if anything there might explain the constant fan spinning.
However, I also did something stupid in my computer yesterday and I am not sure if that was related to the fan spinning problem that I have since become consciously aware of. I describe here in detail what happened:
I wanted to install an electronic dictionary in my Thinkpad. I did not want to pay for it (because I already paid for a Mac version but the license key is not transferrable to Windows PC). Vaguely understanding that there are cracked versions of these things on the internet, I googled for a cracked version of the said dictionary. Apparently there was an entry for this dictionary in this website called Crack Inn:
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So I clicked Download KeyGen and downloaded a zipfolder containing the following three files:
File_ID.DIZ (DIZ File; 1 KB)
TSRh.nfo (System Information File; 3 KB)
Ultralingua.french.english.col.crack.by.TSRh.exe (Application; 1039 kb)
Not even knowing what I was getting myself into, I just clicked the third application file. What happened was that a black window (I think it was a command window) popped up. This window showed nothing but the title of the file, stayed for a few seconds and disappeared. I clicked it again and the same thing happened (and no dictionary file was intalled, by the way).
I took a look at the properties of this file and the description states that it is a "7z Setup SFX small".
So I am not sure if clicking the file and conjuring up a command window somehow "messed up" my system, which caused this constant fan spinning. I have also noticed that my cursor has since become at times sluggish. I am not sure if all this is related to the application file I downloaded (which I have since deleted completely).
Please let me know. And even if the fan spinning problem cant be related to the attempted application installation, is there any way I can un-do what I did (because running an unknown program is stupid)?
Thank you!
Mod edit: Removed link to questionable site.
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