Hello tom's hardware,
I recently installed windows 8.1 64 bit professional on my laptop as an upgrade to windows 7, as I heard that windows 8.1 uses significantly less system resources. Once installing I open my task manager to see how much system resources I had saved only to find that I was using over 1.2 gb, twice what I was achieving in windows 7. This is after closing all non essential processes in task manager. I have looked through each process to try and figure out what could be causing the problem but to no avail. Some googling around and I found that no one has had the same issue as me (as far as I know). So I now ask you tom's hardware, what could be causing this? Are there hidden processes on my pc that I don't know about? Whatever the reason could be, I eagerly await your responses.
Sujmaster2000
I recently installed windows 8.1 64 bit professional on my laptop as an upgrade to windows 7, as I heard that windows 8.1 uses significantly less system resources. Once installing I open my task manager to see how much system resources I had saved only to find that I was using over 1.2 gb, twice what I was achieving in windows 7. This is after closing all non essential processes in task manager. I have looked through each process to try and figure out what could be causing the problem but to no avail. Some googling around and I found that no one has had the same issue as me (as far as I know). So I now ask you tom's hardware, what could be causing this? Are there hidden processes on my pc that I don't know about? Whatever the reason could be, I eagerly await your responses.
Sujmaster2000