At some point (my guess is when I "upgraded to WIn 11) my power plan settings were changed from balanced which is recommended to high quality which means the computer was using more energy to do EVERYTHING. X.x

It's only been a few hours since I changed it back, but already the computer is running on aver 20 degrees cooler which puts it at 170F under really high load instead of 190 which is where it typically crashes.

(and normal load of 120-130 instead of 140-150)

I highly recommend going through this if you haven't already done something like it because 1) it makes windows less intrusive and 2) turning off a lot of these features will use less processing power

Oh I have not! Thank you! This computer was high end when I bought it, but it's certainly not 5-6 years later so it needs help when I can give it to it. Plus, with my vision a lot of those extras are beyond useless to me! Some make it actually HARDER for me to use the computer

yeah for sure! Also win11 has a LOT of "features" that are mmmm really nosy, shall we say??

Oh heck yes. They have how to turn off OneDrive in here. I don't use it at all. It can go byebye. I trust my own backups thanks

onedrive annoys the fuck out of me GOD lol

yeah I see a couple of these I have dealt with already because they were so nosy, but more to turn off is not bad at all!

RIGHT? sldkfjasdlkf I hate it

Every problem I hear about Windows 11 makes me happier I switched to Linux.

yeeeah, I've heard that from several people now! It's not an option for me at the moment, but perhaps someday because this is getting ridiculous!

Oh yeah. It definitely wasn't a suggestion I know that there are a lot of reasons people can't do that. Just. Not regretting I did even if figuring out certain parts was annoying.

hey, at least that is a good endorsement that if I can switch I really should!

If you do switch and need advice I can tell you what I know. I'm not an expert tho.

Thanks! I will remember that because you will know a lot more than me. I'll be pretty clueless!