Yoga 2 Pro Win10 Upgrade Woes

I updated my Yoga Pro 2 to windows 10 yesterday. The upgrade process went smooth. The first thing I noticed is  that  the laptop got really hot. I have owned this laptop for 1.5 years and it has never gotten this hot before.  I reverted back to Win8.1 and immediately the temperature returned to normal. (In Win10 the battery also lasted mabe 2 hours if i was lucky, in win8.1 my battery lasts at least 5 hours). i also noticed that with nothing major running, the RAM usage was 60% of 4 GB. Compared to 30% in Win8.1. I tried to install win10 again, only this time I did a factory reset to delete all data and apps. I only installed the Lenovo Drivers and Chrome. This time RAM usage is OK, battery life is decent from what i can tell. But the Laptop still gets hot. It's not as bad as the first time, but it's still warmer than i am used too.I noticed that after I installed Lenovo Energy Meter, the computer started to get warm and I uninstalled it and it got better. But now the Yellow colour issue is back. Some questions I have:1) Did anyone else install Win10 onto their Yoga 2 Pro? Does it work ok?2) Do you notice it getter hotter than normal?3) Is my latop getting warmer due to windows being installed and it will get better once the install settles? Thanks in advance!  

Sounds like your keyboard had been setup as USEnglish and win10 changed it to UK/HongKongEnglish,   You could manually change it back to US English if you wanted to. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/registry_index.html

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