Satellite U400-135 overheats

Hi,
Few weeks back I bought new Toshiba Satellite U400-138 and now I feel it is an inferior design due to many complains I found either here in the support forum or from the people who tried to deal with this series .
Fist of all the overheat issue becomes not affordable as I all about to loose my fingers due to extreme heat comes from the touch pad bottom level !! moreover it usually takes more than 7 minutes to get the windows logon screen while starting up the windows and when you access the windows it keeps showing CPU usage almost 100% for long time just by clicking the internet explorer so i can not do any thing except waiting (it is killing slow) and when i compare it with my old P4 desktop i feel how much i was wrong when i decided to go for the U-400 !
Today I am decided to take the laptop back to local Toshiba dealer and when I was there I tried to touch the lower part of the similar model availbel in the show room and it was extremely hot and when I asked the sales man there he informed me that there are many customers reported the same complain then I have been referred to their service center for inspection and I am so boring now because my new laptop will be serviced after just two weeks only and , I think this model is an inferior design and the only way to get rid of this problem to get the same replaced by something else?!!!!!
your valuable feedback is highly apprciated.

Hi Will
Ive got a U400 too. Its a U400 which belongs to the PSU40E series.
I use both OS; Vista and XP.
At the beginning the Vista started slowly it was not too slow but slower as the Win XP.
I investigated a little bit and found a solution;
Firstly I found out that many background processes and applications have been loaded at the beginning of the booting procedure In MSCONFIG you can find these applications.
I have disabled some not necessary (for me) programs and the notebook booted much faster.
Furthermore I have noticed that Tempro tool update helped a lot.
So please check these both proposals.
I'm sure it would help you...
Regarding the higher touchpad temperature;
Well, my touchpad is also warmer as the rest of the notebook cover but this is nothing unusual because the cooling modules are placed below this touchpad and the left hand side is always warmer due to the heat dissipation on this notebook side
So you shouldnt be worried; this is nothing unusual
Bye & have a nice day

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Unfortunately I cannot offer you 100% working solution because I don't have exact the same notebook model but what I can say is that I think BIOS has nothing to with this issue.
It is very interesting that you have tested it with different operating systems and different headphones but the situation is always the same. What can be the problem?
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