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Well, since I use my notebook many hours everyday & suspected a response might ´take a while, I decided I had to do something to prevent the CPU getting roasted & doing irreversible damage.

I luckily enough had a restoration point created on 12th, the day the updates where installed and decided I would lose nothing trying going back.

I did that & ALL the above issues where gone, meaning something had been installed that was causing those problems.

Some updates where removed, but also some drivers which had been installed. I noted SOME of those Windows Updates installed remained.

After that Windows Update naturally wanted to reinstall removed Windows Updates, but also noted a few more that were not there before.

I decided to to allow the installation Windows Updates to see if the issues would be back, but luckily, none of the 3 issues came back.

One of the updates removed when I used the restoration point was Realtek HD Audio driver + 2, 3 others. I have no idea whether it had anything to do with this, but I have not updated it again yet, although iObit Driver Booster shows it needs updating. It also currently shows the Qualcomm Atheros WLAN network adapter driver needs updating. I do not remember whether it was there at the time, but I’m in no hurry. I have always updated those drivers now & then though & had never had a problem with it.

The fact is something caused those issues at the time of the update & the problems persisted for about 2 days and now they are gone.

That means

• no overheating, with the CPU temperatures mostly below 60° C … even like currently while multitasking with several tabs of Firefox open, one with CNN online, a Chrome window, Gimp open, Thunderbird, etc.
• the function for adjusting screen brightness is back
• the Power => “Sleep” option is back.

I would encourage anyone who had similar issues (like 4 people have indicated) IF they came AFTER such a Windows or other program update to try going back to a restoration point BEFORE the update, when everything was OK.

It’s always good to manually create restoration points now & then when all is running well, which help in such cases in addition, just in case the one(s) automatically created by Windows was/were made in a time when the problem had already come up or are too old.

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