2009 Macbook Pro fan noise with Windows 7

Hello Apple community,
I'm not sure if I should post this in the bootcamp section or not.
I've recently installed Windows 7 on my mid 2009 MBP. I used OS X Lion to create the bootcamp partiton. Everything installed ok but now my MBP's fan is getting noticably loud whenever I use Windows. I've used OS X Lion, and then Mavericks before installing Windows 7 and the only time I heard the fan that loud was when I was playing a video game or doing something hardware intensive. Once I quite the game the fan would stop being so loud. The fan is not consistantly loud, it subsides for a breif period of time only to go full speed again shortly. But it is loud enough most of the time for it to cause me some concern.
Does anyone have any idea about this issue? Is this a consistant problem with MBP using Windows 7? Should I do an update to OS X Lion? Any adive would be greatly appreicated.
Rados

Thanks for replying turostar.
I did as you suggested. I have noticed an improvement in terms of the noise. It isn't as loud for as long a time but every now and then the fan will kick start to make noise again. Is this to be expected?

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