How To Monitor Your PC Or Laptop Temperature

Is your computer shutting down frequently without any notice? Most often, it happens after your leave your computer running for a while, and it just shut down without any message. One of the root courses of this symptom is your PC or Lapter is experiencing high temperature until it hits the the max allowable temperature. The computer will be automatically shutdown to protect the PC from overheating.

So, if you PC is experiencing the symptom of shutting down suddenly and frequently, most probably it is caused by high temperature. One way to confirm the issue it is to measure the temperature of PC or Laptop.

You don't to install a thermometer at your PC or laptop. One of the best ways to monitor is to install temperature reading software that might help you actually know if the problem is causing by overheating. Coretemp is a tiny application which is low on resources and is surprisingly accurate in providing the PC or laptop temperature in real-time. It works by communicating with the built-in digital thermal sensor (DTS) on latest Intel and AMD processors.

It is a tiny but extremely powerful and accurate program which tells you the temperature of each core simultaneously and can be easily installed on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Coretemp can be download at http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/.

In the above example, CoreTemp reads the temperatue on Duo Core Intel PC. Tj Max is the maximum allowable temperature. If any of core temperature hit Tj Max, the computer will be shutdown automatically to pretect the PC from overheating. The above example, the Cores are measured at 69 deg. C to 70 deg. C, showing that this PC is experiencing an overheating issue.

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How To Backup & Restore Registry in Windows 7/Vista/XP

In proper modification of registry in Windows may cause system crash. So, it is important to backup the existing registry before you modify it. Just in case any problem arise due to the registry modification, you can always restore it from the backup copy.

Exporting - Backup Registry

There are slidely different in steps to backup the registry in different Windows versions. Below are simple steps to backup the registry for Windows 7/Vista/XP:

Windows XP and Vista : Open Start menu, type regedit in Start Search and click OK.

Windows XP: Open Start menu, click Run, type regedit and select OK.


Once the Registry Editor window launched, go to the File Menu and select Export.


Under the export range select All.


Put an appropriate file name and save as file type Registration Files(*.reg).

Importing - Restore Registry

If you want to restore the registry, select the import from the file menu of registry editor:

Now select the registry file(backup) that you made(using above procedure) and it will recover your settings that were before you made changes in the registry.

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