>> I've got a number of temperatures shown but the CPU is the only one I
>> pay attention to simply as an indicator.
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>> Right now it's a fairly cool day, 35 degrees, and the CPU is showing 47
>> degrees with a range of 42 - 61 for today.
Depends on the CPU of course, but anything above 70c is unhealthy. Modern CPUs will throttle down if they get too hot, had any of those symptoms?
Older failing disks themselves run warmer, and will make the cpu work harder but not 20c harder
i bet you dislodged some dirt or something from the cpu cooler if its now running cooler.
good idea to whip the cpu cooler off, clean off the old heat sink compound and replace it, it goes off after a while and becomes . useless..
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Windows 10 PnP? 
Windows 10 PnP? 