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Fan spins a lot when downloading large file
Chances are your Antivirus is scanning your download files, which uses CPU power and that makes your CPU run hot (it's natural in every electronic device), so the fans spin faster to cool it down.
Don't worry about it, happens to everyone with a decent antivirus 🙂
You can also check your Task Manager to see which process or program is using a lot of CPU.
Right-click on the taskbar and this menu appears so you can select task manager from it.
- Sometimes CTRL + ALT + DELETE works better, specially when system is nearly hanging
This didn't happen when I use Chrome. The only antivirus I use is Windows Defender and when I check CPU usage and I/O in Process Hacker, it's edge who is on top. Windows Defender is way at the bottom.
- Oh okay so you already identified that Edge chromium is using CPU the most.
which version of Windows 10 and Edge insider are you using?
how long do the fans keep spinning faster? and during that time, which process would be consuming disk activity the most?HotCakeX I am using Version 78.0.262.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit)
The fan is spinning during the whole download (so during the 2 hours that it takes me to download the 5GB files). I have my usual software running but because the fan starts to spin just when I start the download and stops when the download is finished (or canceled) then I don't thin my other software are responsible
