Windows 8.1 CPU Usage being used by Service Hosts

My problem has been persistant for several of days and I really need my CPU usage. Some Service Hosts using sometimes up to 50% of my CPU usage. I have tried using the Refresh tool in the advanced settings
which deletes everything installed to the computer to no prevail. I have even come to the idea of resetting to factory settings but I am beginning to think that the problem will still persist. I have seen several people have this problem with no solution that
is visible. I have not installed anything to make my CPU usage do this, I have clicked Run then typed in Services.msc and did some things in there. I saw somewhere that the Windows Modules Installer was one of those "CPU-eaters" along with Windows
Search, so I set there Start Up Type to Manual and put them to a halt. I will put a picture for these Service Host files and how much power each one individually takes. Before the Refresh I would click on the services and then try to end their task, still
no prevail. Please tell me how I can fix this, I don't really see a need to post my speculations for my computer since it is happening to a lot of other people on Windows 8.1, not a selected few. I hope someone will read my post through and help me, because
this is troublesome and limits the performance of my PC. Thank you for reading, I hope you have some solutions for my situation.
Images
As for the first image, I am showing you the Windows Module Installer Worker using up some CPU, and I am not installing a Windows update by the way.
As for the second image, I really don't understand what is happening since they are labeled all the same but numbers and networks. But still, they are eating at my usage, just one service taking up 40% is uncalled for in my books. Also,
as the Service Host rises, the System coincides with it too, rising at the same time. I really don't know how to go about fixing the Hosts. Maybe a downgrade to Windows 7 which I don't have? The most recent version of Windows I have on file is Windows Vista,
and well, I don't really want to go that far back.
When I tried to submit my question, I got some red text saying "Body text cannot contain images or links until we are able to verify your account.", and I don't really feel like waiting for that,
so you are just going to have to go off of the summaries I gave you. Sorry.

Hi,
Can you use process explorer to narrow down the culprit?
Process Explorer v16.02
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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fan ACPI Fan Driver
cfg80211 wireless configuration support
ppdev
ehci_hcd USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
snd_mixer_oss Mixer OSS emulation for ALSA.
snd_ac97_codec Universal interface for Audio Codec '97
nvidia
lp
eeprom_93cx6 EEPROM 93cx6 chip driver
parport_pc PC-style parallel port driver
ohci1394 Driver for PCI OHCI IEEE-1394 controllers
parport
psmouse PS/2 mouse driver
ac97_bus
ieee1394
serio_raw Raw serio driver
8139too RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet driver
e100 Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver
snd_pcm Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
pcspkr PC Speaker beeper driver
battery ACPI Battery Driver
8139cp RealTek RTL-8139C+ series 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver
snd_timer ALSA timer interface
i2c_core I2C-Bus main module
iTCO_wdt Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver
mii MII hardware support library
evdev Input driver event char devices
snd Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
ac ACPI AC Adapter Driver
iTCO_vendor_support Intel TCO Vendor Specific WatchDog Timer Driver Support
usbcore
soundcore Core sound module
sg SCSI generic (sg) driver
shpchp Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
snd_page_alloc Memory allocator for ALSA system.
processor ACPI Processor Driver
thermal ACPI Thermal Zone Driver
pci_hotplug PCI Hot Plug PCI Core
intel_agp
button ACPI Button Driver
agpgart AGP GART driver
rtc_cmos Driver for PC-style 'CMOS' RTCs
rtc_core RTC class support
rtc_lib
ext4 Fourth Extended Filesystem
mbcache Meta block cache (for extended attributes)
jbd2
crc16 CRC16 calculations
sr_mod SCSI cdrom (sr) driver
cdrom
sd_mod SCSI disk (sd) driver
ata_piix SCSI low-level driver for Intel PIIX/ICH ATA controllers
ata_generic low-level driver for generic ATA
pata_acpi SCSI low-level driver for ATA in ACPI mode
libata Library module for ATA devices
floppy
scsi_mod SCSI core
Display
Display
Display
Resolution 1600x900 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.6.3.901
Monitors
Monitor 0 1600x900 pixels
Extensions
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
NV-CONTROL
NV-GLX
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE2
Version 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.43.13
Direct Rendering Yes
Processor
Processor
Processor
Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
Family, model, stepping 15, 1, 2 (Pentium 4)
Vendor Intel
Configuration
Cache Size 256kb
Frequency 1594.77MHz
BogoMIPS 3190.44
Byte Order Little Endian
Features
FDIV Bug no
HLT Bug no
F00F Bug no
Coma Bug no
Has FPU yes
Cache
Cache information not available
Capabilities
fpu Floating Point Unit
vme Virtual 86 Mode Extension
de Debug Extensions - I/O breakpoints
pse Page Size Extensions (4MB pages)
tsc Time Stamp Counter and RDTSC instruction
msr Model Specific Registers
pae Physical Address Extensions
mce Machine Check Architeture
cx8 CMPXCHG8 instruction
apic Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
sep Fast System Call (SYSENTER/SYSEXIT)
mtrr Memory Type Range Registers
pge Page Global Enable
mca Machine Check Architecture
cmov Conditional Move instruction
pat Page Attribute Table
pse36 36bit Page Size Extensions
clflush Cache Line Flush instruction
dts Debug Store
acpi Thermal Monitor and Software Controlled Clock
mmx MMX technology
fxsr FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions
sse SSE instructions
sse2 SSE2 (WNI) instructions
ss Self Snoop
ht HyperThreading
tm Thermal Monitor
up smp kernel running on up
pebs Precise-Event Based Sampling
bts Branch Trace Store
Memory
Memory
Total Memory 1034084 kB
Free Memory 94276 kB
Buffers 40536 kB
Cached 700112 kB
Cached Swap 0 kB
Active 170788 kB
Inactive 726844 kB
Active(anon) 74112 kB
Inactive(anon) 88348 kB
Active(file) 96676 kB
Inactive(file) 638496 kB
Unevictable 12 kB
Mlocked 12 kB
High Memory 139144 kB
Free High Memory 252 kB
Low Memory 894940 kB
Free Low Memory 94024 kB
Virtual Memory 2931852 kB
Free Virtual Memory 2931852 kB
Dirty 12 kB
Writeback 0 kB
AnonPages 156996 kB
Mapped 57392 kB
Slab 24260 kB
SReclaimable 18864 kB
SUnreclaim 5396 kB
PageTables 1376 kB
NFS_Unstable 0 kB
Bounce 0 kB
WritebackTmp 0 kB
CommitLimit 3448892 kB
Committed_AS 404212 kB
VmallocTotal 122880 kB
VmallocUsed 27648 kB
VmallocChunk 52368 kB
DirectMap4k 32760 kB
DirectMap4M 876544 kB
Benchmarks
CPU Blowfish
CPU Blowfish
This Machine 1595 MHz 50.176
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 26.1876862
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 172.816713
CPU CryptoHash
CPU CryptoHash
This Machine 1595 MHz 11.071
CPU Fibonacci
CPU Fibonacci
This Machine 1595 MHz 74.202
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 8.1375674
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 58.07682
CPU N-Queens
CPU N-Queens
This Machine 1595 MHz 132.704
FPU FFT
FPU FFT
This Machine 1595 MHz 104.630
FPU Raytracing
FPU Raytracing
This Machine 1595 MHz 212.639
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (null) 40.8816714
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) (null) 161.312647
So what I am wanting help with is finding the solution to the cpu usage so that I can use this computer at least until I can afford a new power supply or whatever. I am open to any good suggestions, though I must state I am not really interested in tiling wm's at the moment. I am just not a true minimalist.
Thanks in advance for any and all help. I understand that there is a lot of info in this post, but it is my hope that with this info the problem can be solved. If there is info I didn't provide that is needed, please let me know.

also check that you have
session.screen0.opaqueMove false
in your .fluxbox/init this will probably help a bit if it is currently true,
Last edited by Cyrusm (2009-01-26 13:52:13)

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