Yosemite make my computer overheat

Since I have upgraded to Yosemite, my laptop - which is only a year and a half old, has frequent back-ups, is free of crap and never was slow before - has been shockingly different from the moment I have installed Yosemite. I have waited quite a bit before installing Yosemite because of the bugs, when I did, for what I read, the bugs were fixed. But exactly since I have installed Yosemite, my computer is very slow when you turn it on, if you want to lower or increase the volume, it takes several seconds. Even loading sites that I often visit take forever to load now. My computer also now overheats for no reason while doing the same simple daily tasks.

Sometimes you want to do a couple full backups, take the Yosemite installer and either
Install on an external drive to test it out for awhile /
Erase your laptop drive and have just Leopard /
Make sure that you more than meet the minimum requirements /
Let us know what your laptop year/model and hardware is (ie, 4GB RAM and 500GB disk drive with 250GB free)
Adding more memory, and swapping out the hard disk drive for an SSD is one way to help.
http://www.macsales.com is a good place to start just research and see what is available
http://www.everymac.com also
It may be you have software that 'doesn't belong' and one way to check is to post the output from EtreCheck
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

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