Asus notebook bloatware/cpu usage reinstall question

Hello.
I have recently bought an asus x53s notebook specced like this:
-i7 2630qm
-4gb ddr3 1333 (1dimm)
-320gb seagate momentus slim 5400rpm
-nvidia gt540m 2gb gddr3
-win7 home premium x64
Now, the first time i booted the laptop up, it was full of bloatware, installed in one partition (system partition, C) , while the other was empty.
Now, the laptop was really slow, slower than my e7500 desktop, which is kinda strange considering the i7 is a 4core/8thread processor....
It had about 115 processes running in idle...
So, i bought a new WD scorpio black 750gb 7200rpm and installed vanilla win7 ultimate x64.
When i booted up it was extremely fast, but core0 was constantly turboboosting and at 75% use, and my fan was running at its max, so my battery, instead of lasting 4hrs 20min like it did before, now lasted 40min. (even tho it had about 35 processes running)
So i put my old disk back and made a backup of the system thru the AI recovery software included with the laptop.
5 blank dvds after, i put my WD disk back, formatted it and installed the backup with the dvds.
I selected to install windows in one partition, meaningi have no other partitions, so now i only have C .
So basically now i have the same system as i had with my first disk.
I uninstalled asus sonic focus, the game pack and everything i didn't need, however i still have 92 processes running and 2.7gb memory used.
Now, I believe asus somehow tweaked some registry settings to bring the cpu usage down...
Also, when i tried to install asus sonic focus on the win7 ultimate installation, it said it was only possible to install it on an asus computer, so i guess there has to be some sort of key that tells windows it's running on an asus laptop.
So i'm asking: is there a way to install a clean copy of windows but keeping the original cpu asus settings? Because reinstalling from the backup didn't do any good.
Thank you and excuse me for my extremely bad english

 

bump please

 

This sounds more driver related than registry related as far as CPU usage goes. I would try reinstalling Win7 disabling Windows Update during install, then pull down the latest drivers off the ASUS website ( ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Search ) starting with the chipset driver. After driver installation I would go ahead and throw on SP1 assuming your install dvd doesn't include that, then turn on Windows update to install everything else.

You might also verify you have the latest BIOS as it looks like there was at least 1 firmware update.

 

Chastity posted this on the ROG forums. G73/74/53 Series Driver and Application Reference DRIVERS. I used it when I wiped my G74SX-DH71 friday. Everything worked fine, it even has extra useful applications you can install. So it may help you.

 

you should download a clean windows 7 install disc and start from scratch.
You can keep the 2 partitions that were there already.

don't make recovery discs from preinstalled bloatware. You'll just end up where you started.

you only need to install the graphics driver, and maybe the sound driver. keyboard shortcuts too.
everything else should be recognized by windows' built in drivers.

after everything is fresh and clean, you should go into the control panel power options advanced settings, and set the cpu so that it is using only a fraction of speed when using battery power.