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One small Windows setting turned my noisy, overheating laptop into a cooler, quieter machine—and it took under five minutes.

First and foremost, I don't recommend doing this yourself. I created an isolated virtual machine and used a firewall to prevent it from access the rest of my home network. Then I downloaded malware ...