Odd, on my system, if I minimize it or only show the remote, there is no CPU usage on the task manager nor disk spinning. Nor is the system seeming to run slow at all. Only when the face itself is displayed do things appear to be actually happening (and in that case there are things happening, a graphic file is being downloaded to the hard disk and being processed over and over again).

I don't have a laptop to test the fan. But I can't imagine why a piece of software would make the fan run. I though the fans in laptops were thermally controlled.

Wait, your laptop probably has a CPU which changes speed depending on whether a piece of software is using up CPU cycles. If that's the case, I've got no idea how I could tell the CPU to skip the processor speedup just for my app. I don't know what the API is for that. If anyone knows, I'd be happy to code it in. Clearly the "System Idle Process" is doing this, so there's gotta be a way.