Windows 8 CPU hungry on G73?

Weird, my CPU usage is always between 3 and 15% on idle, never used to do that in Win7. Apps that usually stay calm like outlook seem to all of a sudden want to be active all the time. Anybody else have a higher than normal cpu usage on windows 8?

Here is what my last 60 seconds look like, and this is all the time, even after restart

 

Pat when you installed did you do custom? If not a many items are loaded that are sending feedback to MS. I did custom and turned off everything related to feedback that I could. This is just my guess ..
Mine stays well under 10 % at idle, but I am running in a VM

Could you please resize the image or do an attachment . We do not all have wide screen displays. Thanks

 

I doubt it's feedback being sent as I believe that's only sent when you are prompted specifically on an app crash.

Honestly, they completely re-worked the task manager in Windows 8 (better in my opinion). I do see similar results on my system, but my performance has been as good or better than it was previously on Windows 7.

The main thing though is that stability on Windows 8 has been incredible for me so far. I've yet to have any lockups, crashes, or anything else that would make me reconsider my upgrade. I'm sure they'll clean things up a bit, but I see nothing that would make me need to revert to Windows 7.

 

Fixed it this time, if you want to attach a large image, you can use the following code: [ image=750][ /image] instead of the default img /img code. This will resize the image to 750 horizontal pixels and make it a clickable thumbnail as well.

As for the CPU usage, if the install is relatively fresh, could it be services like indexing running in the background and the usage will decrease after a while, when they're done with their initial data collection?