How to prevent an HP laptop from overheating without buying an ice planet

So we own an HP envy M6, which is a reasonably new model from HP. We bought it last november, and have used it since. The problem with the M6 is that it overheats constantly, and shuts itself down when it does. This can occur about once every 20 minutes and after a month of this occurring, it shortened to once every 10 minutes. We were pretty desperate because we had a lot of crap on that computer, so we decided to improvise. Here is our method:

You will need:
- Ice block
- Cloth and/or towel
- two identical blocks of wood

1. Wrap your ice block in the cloth and or towel
2. Place under the rear heat vent
3. put the blocks of wood near the lower two corners as to suspend the front

Pictures here:

These are the blocks of wood. They work fine, but the front end of the laptop is quite sharp, so you will have to watch out for that.

here you can see the block of ice, wrapped in a towel.

Another view of the block of ice

Hopefully, this helps and under the right conditions, you will not have to buy an ice planet to maintain a reasonable temperature for your HP laptop.

Troubleshooting:

- If the right side block starts slipping (due to the fact that the HP envy M6 is ridiculously left weighted and weighs nothing on the right side) place your hand and or small animal there to hold it in place. If using a small animal, please do not keep it there for any longer than 5 minutes because you will end up with a fine, medium rare, small animal

- If the ice starts melting, then quickly run to your nearest fire station and alert them of the situation. They will deal with the ensuing explosion

Thank you for reading!