[Satellite Pro A200] - slowness during data transfer and heat problems.

Hi folks.
I have a 1.5 y.o Toshiba Satellite Pro A200 with standard 200GB HDD. Since some time its behaviour is just... weird.
Sometimes system slows. It just behaves sluggish, it frequently freezes for a second during simple tasks such as entering the text. It;s more frequent during intensive data transfers (such as copying files through FTP from my LAN or copying from pendrive) but sometimes it happens even when no other app than the Firefox is working. It's not that apparent, so I wonder - will service take it under warranty conditions (which means - is there a probability that they'll say that everything is perfect and charge me for this?)
The computer was on the warranty repair once, they replaced HDD with other one. Is it possible that the other one has some troubles as well (S.M.A.R.T. check discovers nothing). Or maybe it's faulty SATA controller?
Other thing is the temperature. During normal work (Internet, MS Word) both cores works at 60*C. When gaming the temperature can rise above 90*C and the computer sometimes shuts down. I assume that the problem is the dust accumulated inside the laptop but I can't see how can I clean it up.
Would you go to the service with such problems?

Virus scanners can slow a system down considerably, what Virus Scanner are you using?
If you have many programs installed, maybe its time to backup your data and reinstall Windows. I do it myself every year since Windows tends to get bloated and slow after a while.
As for the dust, you can blow it out using a Can of compressed Air sprayed through the main air vent (while the system is off).
Or if the dust buildup is really bad, you may need to send it to an Authorised Service Provider to get it dismantled and cleaned up.

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[PC Information]
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>I tried to repair the Winsock using Microsofts articles with no luck
I assume you are meaning this MS knowledge base article:
[How to determine and to recover from Winsock2 corruption in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, and in Windows Vista|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259]
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> I've got Satellite Pro A200-PSAE7 with ATI HD2600 Mobility Radeon. I've downgraded to XP SP2. I get blue screen saying that ati2dvag went infitive loop quite constantly. Any solution to this?
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