Windows 10: Laptop deadlocking from what appears to be a temperature related problem

Yesterday, 2 or so weeks after I installed a bios update, my laptop froze, cursor and all. And I had to restart it. However, it restarted to a black screen, so I closed my laptop. After waiting for an hour or so I opened my laptop again and it began to work again, only shortly 3 minutes later for the screen to freak out and and freeze again. After messing around with it for a while I got both a “kmode exception not handled” and “unexpected kernel mode trap” blue screen errors. I tried multiple times to reinstall windows, but the laptop kept freezing before it went through. The laptop also seem

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cross thread deadlock on win7

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Laptop temperature problems

My laptop temps are in the low 70's on the desktop doing nothing.

If I play scrabble sometimes the screen tears when I win and the fireworks start. If I use Skype or watch YouTube it gets too hot almost immediately and shuts itself down.

I opened it up and gently brushed off the most obvious lumps of dust from the last decade but it made no difference. I also replaced the HDD with a SSD in the hope of reducing the temperature. This was an improvement for performance but the CPU temps didn't drop.

It is a laptop so I can't see what I can do really. Can you replace the CPU paste on a laptop? Should I (as this suggests) stick the motherboard in the oven to remelt the solder? Is it wise and what bits on a motherboard are temperature sensative and should be removed before hand? It seems a bit drastic to me.

It is a 2006 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with an ATI X1600 GPU which I realise is a bit out of date. Software wise it works fine with a clean install of Windows 10 though - my question is only about if there is something you can do with old laptops to reduce idle temps.