Visual Studio 2015 100-percent CPU usage with Node

Question

I have a particular project that uses 100% of the CPU whenever it is open. You can see, below, the CPU is being used heavily by Visual Studio and Node. I have disabled several VS extensions but still have the problem. Also it continues even if I delete gulp.js, package.json, and bower.json files. It is a C# web project. This doesn't happen with other VS projects on my machine.

Restarting Visual Studio doesn't help, but restarting my whole PC does make the problem go away, for a while.

Answer 1

I fixed this issue by upgrading from Windows 7 to 10. I chose the option to keep my existing applications; Enterprise edition; it went smoothly.