Fixing Issues With Asus Updates and "Ghost Apps"

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Codebender Cate
Jun 01, 2021
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In October of 2018, I bought an Asus RoG GU501GM Gaming Laptop. It worked well at first, but after a few years it started having...issues.

The first issue was the system would suddenly overheat while running specific games or apps. I'm talking, "low performance/power mode" running the CPU up to 70⁰C and higher. My first thought was bad thermal paste. Eas…

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