I'll try what you're suggesting. To give you a feel, one evening in the office when I turned off my laptop; colleagues stood up and asked what loud noise just

I'll try what you're suggesting. To give you a feel, one evening in the office when I turned off my laptop; colleagues stood up and asked what loud noise just turned off. From that day, we noticed that our laptops were loud because of the fans. Sometimes the noise blends in because of AC and generally noise office. But the pitch is very high, and it's because CPU @ 60+ because the McAfee web control thing is running even though one has no browser open. IT haven't been helpful, to the point where against compliance, a few of us being our own laptops to work, and use company ones here and there