I liked the product straight from the box. A decent laptop for the money. Yes, the fan will continue to run straight from the box. It's not due to laptop but Windows 10. Microsoft loads with a lot of crap as a package (just like AT&T did on their free cellphones 10 yrs back) requiring a lot of your CPU and RAM. You will find it in any other laptop as well.  Either you need to install some free software like O&O shutup Win10 (or something similar)  to disable them OR go to windows registry to delete each of them (tricky). The residue of Cortona will keep coming up even after removal. There are no choices other than to keep O&O running on and off after updates.  If you don't like to do either then pay up for a higher CPU Hz and RAM  with any laptop manufacturer.