Visual Studio 2013/2015 Idle CPU usage

Question

I\'m currently evaluating Visual Studio 2015 RC. I\'ve noticed when running the IDE, The Visual Studio 2015 process is constantly at around 25% CPU usage. Even without a project

Answer 1

In my case, The .suo file in Visual Studio was the culprit. Deleting it fixed my issue.

Refer below link for more details.

https://shemeerns.com/2014/04/04/the-solution-user-options-suo-file-in-visual-studio/