Laptop failing

Recently, my laptop has been acting really weird. The CPU usage hits abnormally high %s for no reason when running various tasks, and the fan goes nuts. When running MapleStory my computer goes into a constant WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRR as the fan spins to cool it down. It cools down when I minimize it, and starts right back up when I restore the window. This wasn't happening before. Anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this? I don't even know where to start looking for a fix.

Also, is MapleStory.exe supposed to be taking 3xxk RAM several minutes into starting it, without even going into that many areas? I remember it used to take a lot less. It's killing my 1G of RAM.

Recently, my laptop has been acting really weird. The CPU usage hits abnormally high %s for no reason when running various tasks, and the fan goes nuts. When running MapleStory my computer goes into a constant WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRR as the fan spins to cool it down. It cools down when I minimize it, and starts right back up when I restore the window. This wasn't happening before. Anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this? I don't even know where to start looking for a fix.

Also, is MapleStory.exe supposed to be taking 3xxk RAM several minutes into starting it, without even going into that many areas? I remember it used to take a lot less. It's killing my 1G of RAM.

Blame HackShield for all your problems =D

Actually I have no idea what's causing your laptop to randomly act up. My first suspicion is an unwanted program running the background eating up all your resources.

You still get to blame HackShield for all your other problems though =D

Hm, I disabled a few startup programs linked to things I had to install for work and it seems to be running fine now cool.