Skype App installed with windows 8.1 CPU usage

Skype App is consistently the highest consumer of CPU cycles on my Intel Core I5 machine. It is higher than the appliations that I use most ( Internet Explorer and Thunderbird e-mail) by an order of magnitude. This occurs when Skype has not been used. I could not find an option to stop it from running when starting the computer. My solution was to uninstall the Windows 8.1 installed app and install the old fashioned windows desktop client. Problem solved. In additon the user interface, IMHO is 1000% better!
Al

Hi,
Can you use process explorer to narrow down the culprit?
Process Explorer v16.02
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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--- Exception Details ---
System.Exception: Authentication failed because response data could not be parsed.
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at Microsoft.Management.Services.SelfServicePortal.DataAccess.Service.IntuneAuthenticationService.<UpdateContextFromAuthenticationResponseAsync>d__c.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
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--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
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VERB MethodEnter
Common 1800
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2014-10-30T17:44:27.6437234Z
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2014-10-30T17:44:27.6437234Z
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2014-10-30T17:44:45.9431915Z
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3-0-0 WebAuthenticationBroker AuthenticateAsync to url: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=314087&&appru=ms-app://s-1-15-2-2666988183-1750391847-2906264630-3525785777-2857982319-3063633125-1907478113/&api-version=1.1
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3-0-0 WebAuthenticationBroker returned result:Success
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VERB MethodLeave
Common 1801
c199f6f0-1d13-415a-be16-3ec1a41dcda6
3-0-0 Microsoft.Management.Services.SelfServicePortal.DataAccess.Service.IntuneAuthenticationService - AuthenticateAsync() Leave
2014-10-30T17:44:45.9744572Z
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like Gecko") does not contain match for Windows version regex pattern ("Windows NT (?<Version>6\.2|6\.3)").
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I can run HULU shows without issue...
Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!

I never got a direct answer. I did find a few You Tube videos with great suggestions. One was to find the Skype program file, view propeties, turn off a few features and try running it in a previous version of windows. I made those changes, but the problem didn't go away. I found something else (?? the display theme) that I followed that ultimately increased my font size (yeah!) but also didn't solve the problem. Eventually I went back to undo what I did... although I still get a message when I run Skype (not using all the features available?), and the problem is gone. I haven't tried other programs yet (google hangout).
Another friend suggested it would be cheaper to buy an external microphone/speakers, but the problem occured whether I used my earbuds or the built-ins, so I'm not sure that would work either.
Bottom line, my problem is gone, I have no idea why!

Audigy Gamer not instaling with Windows

I have bee using an audigy gamer quite succesfully for the past year or so. Today, I upgraded my motherboard and cpu. my new motherboard has built on sound (as they all do now) that I have DISABLED in BIOS. I reinstalled a fresh copy of WindowsXP so the drivers would not be messed up with a new motherboard. I can see in my device manager that Creative Audigy Audio Proccesor (WDM) is on my list of installed and working devices...but i get no sound at all. I looked in my sound settings though windows and it shows my default sound device as Emu0kx Audio. This sounds like the same problems I read other people having but here is the difference... I still have my original CD! I used it, twice now, to try to install my card correctly, but nothing changes, still no sound. I downloaded the AUD_EAX4DRV_0303.exe pack from creative's web site but when I try to use it, it says no sound blaster audigy found on your system. I can assure you, it is in there. like I said before, it worked fine until I swapped motherboard and processor. I went from an MSI board with an Athlon 800+ to an MSI board with an Athlon 64 3400+. I have already tried moving it to a new PCI slot and that does not work either. Also, the game port off my audigy is not showing up. I dont know if this is related to the same problem or not. One last thing, the firewire port on my audigy DOES work. So, this means, the card IS being found, but not found as an audigy. Please help!!!

Same problem here, it seems Microsoft has decided we should all be using this Kx driver instead. Is just as well because it works and CL can't manage to write drivers for thier own products anymore for some reason. I believe they may be trying to run some type of forced obsoescense on us. I do give them props for sharing the necessary specs to the ALSA people as my SBAudigy2 platinum works great on Ubuntu Linux using the ALSA driver.
but yeah, why does creative even offer the drivers online, NOBODY can install them, the installer is either broken or some firmware change or something makes it look like not a SB card so the installer will never work to install the driver. At least with the EMU0kx driver you have audio. If you force it via CTZAP on the CD it will install a non working driver and nothing will detect a Soundblaster card.
Cliffs: There are no drivers for the Soundblaster audigy series on Windows XP any more give up looking. A fresh install of windows and using your Install CD does not work, moving the card to a new PCI slot does not work, uninstalling the card drivers and hardware then reinstalling does not work. Creative is known for supplying great hardware and horrible software, sad but true.

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