My MacBook pro is running extremely hot.

The battery was recently replaced and there is no process using high resource. Any similar issues with anyone else. In the past if I have been able to locate an errant process that was causing excess resource usage. not now

My best advice would be to get a cooling pad in the meantime, occasionally MacBooks tend to heat up severely based on the conditions, you may be using it in sunlight or in a humid area, also if you are at high elevation it is harder for the laptop to cool itself. I also recommend getting iStatPro and use it to monitor your tempatures. Also if you want me to give you more specific details tempatures would be nice.

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                        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (361.81 GB free)
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              Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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              com.Cvnt.nke          (2.1.2 - SDK 10.8)
              com.Cvnt.driver.CvntDriver          (2.1.2 - SDK 10.8)
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              [System] com.Cvnt.Uninstall.plist 3rd-Party support link
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              [System] com.mice.360Daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
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              [System] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
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              Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
              Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.77 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
              QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
              o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link
              AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin101750: Version: AmazonMP3DownloaderPlugin 1.0.17 - SDK 10.4 3rd-Party support link
              googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.2.4.18058 3rd-Party support link
              Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.0.1f2 3rd-Party support link
              DirectorShockwave: Version: 11.6.8r638 3rd-Party support link
              JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.8.0 - SDK 10.9 Outdated! Update
    Audio Plug-ins:
              BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
              AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
              AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
              iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
    iTunes Plug-ins:
              Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
    User Internet Plug-ins:
              Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 3rd-Party support link
    3rd Party Preference Panes:
              Flash Player  3rd-Party support link
              XBox 360 Controllers  3rd-Party support link
    Old Applications:
              None
    Time Machine:
              Auto backup: YES
              Volumes being backed up:
              Destinations:
                        Time Machine Backups [Local] (Last used)
                        Total size: 0 B
                        Total number of backups: (null)
                        Size of backup disk: Excellent
                                  Backup size 0 B > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
              Time Machine details may not be accurate.
              All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
    Top Processes by CPU:
                   8%          Finder
                   5%          WindowServer
                   1%          EtreCheck
                   1%          LogosIndexer
                   0%          Google Chrome
    Top Processes by Memory:
              233 MB          com.apple.IconServicesAgent
              127 MB          Finder
              127 MB          Google Chrome
              90 MB          Dock
              74 MB          LogosIndexer
    Virtual Memory Information:
              304 MB          Free RAM
              1.83 GB          Active RAM
              1.21 GB          Inactive RAM
              682 MB          Wired RAM
              605 MB          Page-ins
              0 B          Page-outs

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