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@Grantwhy: Ah, thanks! I guess I could try that one day. But you see, it's really the laptop's fan that's the problem. It is over a year old now, but only recently its fan kinda crapped out and now it doesn't cool as well as it use to. I tried disassembling it to clean the fan, but it turns out I have to take apart the whole she-bang because of the way it was designed. I did it halfway, but after seeing all the wires and the motherboard, I got scared and gave up. (Word of advice: Get a laptop with a fan cover on the back, otherwise when the fan gets dirty, you're screwed – and just spraying it w/compressed air from the outside won't do much)

@Ashraf: HWMonitor did work, but there's no option to make it auto-startup and minimize to the tray (even in the paid version – I tried). I need it in the tray all the time so whoever uses it knows when to let the laptop rest.

@jayesstee: Whoa, that is a hard-drive monitor on steroids! Thanks for the suggestion, but I think running that program all the time will take up a lot of resources and contribute to heating. That seems like a great program though for monitoring multiple drives and servers. 

I found that Anvir Task Manager monitors the disk temperature, and although it has a bunch of other extras that I don't need (which unfortunately means more resources used – and thus more heat), I think that's as close as I'll get to a disk temp monitor that auto-starts and minimizes to the tray. Thanks for the help guys!