Help! My laptop is hot

It’s so puzzling. The two mini-fans from my laptop cooler can’t keep my HP Pavilion dv2518 laptop from getting hot. “You can fry eggs on it,” somebody commented when his hands touched my laptop by chance. “Auntie, your laptop is hot,” my 7-year old niece told me when she played some games on it. Hmmm… I wonder where the problem is?

I’ve browsed the net for some answers and there are many that came up such as running too many processes or the laptop getting dusty. I checked my windows task manager and found out I have 90 processes running! Tsk…Could this be the cause? Let’s see about that when I turn off those programs that don’t really need to run in the background.

If you’ve experienced your laptop getting hot and got it solved, please share some info or tips on how to keep it from heating up.