windows 7 vs windows 8

Question

I downgraded windows. 8.1 to windows 7 about a month ago. (Core i5 with intel HD graphics 4000). It seems the processor utilisation is dow to 1% ost of the time, as opposed to 6-7% on win 8.1 . gpu usage is quite high though and has the fan whizzing at high apeed, even with aero off, and i can get only 3 hours on battery. Can we blame win7 and its heavy graphics or it's something else

Answer 1

low cpu usage is not because windows 8.1 is takes much resourses but it mostly because of bloatware(im guessing u bought your pc preinstalled with win8.1 and it had some pre installed programs.) more bloatware = more background processes = more cpu usage at any given time. Downgrading to windows 7 then removes the bloatware which results in less background processes = less cpu usage at any given time.. I don't think we can blame windows 7 for high gpu usage because the machine came preinstalled with win8.1 . It would be like blaming windows 8.1 for high gpu/cpu usage on a pc that came preinstalled with windows xp. What is the make and model of your machine

Comments

It's a Dell Vostro 3560, came with windows 8 preindtalled and i performed a clean install of windows 8.1 to rwmove bloatware....I found out it's indees windows 7 themes that make the GPU work really hard, i'm now using windows classic theme, both CPU and GPU usage are consistently at 1%, and battery life is now at a staggering 7 hours!

Answer 2

if your graphics card supports aero then its not about resources... Open task manager and check what is utilizing your resources