Windows 8.1 CPU usage issue

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Apparently I'm not the only person with this problem, however there doesn't seem to be one simple solution to it. Some solutions involve find the single thing that causes the cpu to spike and disabling it. Some people can't even find the one thing that makes it go that high, like me. One solution, which I am currently attempting, but not holding my breath over is reinstalling 8.1. However, I'm not sure I can do that as it may say that I already have 8.1 installed. Or it could very well install over top, but I am again, not going to hold my breath. I have Windows 8, no way that I know of to go back to just 8. You can't uninstall 8.1 once it's there.

I was able to play Arkham City last night and even beat Clayface, but the part where Catwoman robs a giant safe went very slow (but playable, surprisingly). After loading into a new area or after dying, it would go slow for a moment and be somewhat fine. The game wasn't working toooo badly, but it certainly wasn't running at it's best based on my machine. I would like to get this Win 8.1 issue out of the way before I put in my new motherboard, cpu, and ram, but I guess I have probably a month and a half to get it working right again.

Wow, I had the same problem and just fixed my laptop 2 days ago! Your laptop comes pre-installed with a bunch of stuff you neither need or use. Uninstall all of the Windows 8 tiles that you don't use. Your laptop will run much faster and use less RAM.

Good luck!

I feel I should note that going through the task manager to see what uses the most cpu power does nothing for me as none of the programs really add up to the high percentage of cpu usage. This is a bigger problem than removing any tiles can fix.

There is a fix -- install Linux.

LOL!

Thanks anyway, except to those Linux people. As much as I love playing with something new, I don't intend to go to linux. Windows is pretty much the thing with home users, especially gamers. Anyways, I figured out that there's a Windows Backup Service that is causing the problem after trying out all the fixes they try to get you to do online. It still points to it being the 8.1 upgrade. Either way. I'm done. And it's working as it should be, now.

Actually, the GUI of Ubuntu is much slower than that of Windows 8—and the GPU drivers aren't nearly as good. Linux has a more monolithic kernel than Windows 8 does, though, so most processing tasks are faster. Having said that, pretty much any advantage you get with Linux, will be even better with BSD.

That's odd. I use SuSE Linux instead of Ubuntu. I tend to get better performance with that than local people with Windows 8 on a new and faster computer.

It might help that I use WindowMaker instead of Gnome or KDE.

As for the drivers, you're right. I think that part of the problem is that some of the manufacturers refuse to provide details to Linux and BSD developers to develop drivers and so they have to use the drivers provided by the manufacturers instead.

For what it's worth, my primary workstation is Linux and just about everything else is OpenBSD. The main reason for that is that Linux supports dual monitors on the dual monitor graphics card that I use while OpenBSD only supported a single monitor on the card the last time I checked.

I also have a couple of Windows machines. I haven't even bothered to start one of them up in the last two or three years and am thinking of switching that one to OpenBSD as well.

Used to be the same here, malware and trojans were the cause in my case, as well as unnecessary start-up programs and metadata-corrupted wave files causing windows explorer to go berserk every time when browsing through them.

Oh and you might check for broken drivers too, since windows update in windows 8 can f**k them up like nothing else can.