If it's ten years old, then the thermal compound has dried out and cannot adequately transfer heat away from the processor. You should remove all old thermal compound and apply fresh. Also replace all thermal pads, as they will no longer work well after all those years. There also may be dust inside the laptop and maybe inside the fan and heat fins.  You can confirm a heating problem by using a free monitoring utility such as HWMonitor or Core Temp. You might consider an internal cleaning. Open it up to clean out dust. Disassemble the fan to clean out dust and fluff. I found a fair bit in two laptops I worked on recently. Remove the heat sink, remove the old thermal compound and apply new thermal compound before reinstalling the heat sink. While you're in there, replace the CMOS battery (coin-cell battery). If it isn't dead, it soon will be. BIOS settings and date/time can't be saved without a functioning CMOS battery.
Hi, I have  Windows 10 installed on my Alienware 18 R1 laptop, along with the Alienware Control Center installed. It is working fine, however the fans are always running at full speed and very noisy. I manually cleaned the fans but it didn't change anything. What could be wrong? Thank you.
18 R1, fans at top speed