Outlook 2000 & Hyper-Threading bug?

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Bradley Walker

Hello all. Earlier today when I built a brand new system based on an Intel
P4 HT 2.8ghz "c" chip with a GigaByte GA-8KNXP motherboard I noticed some
very strange issues with Outlook 2000. Outlook immediately began running at
66% cpu usage and it got so bad that just viewing different messages took
upwards of 15 seconds each. I uninstalled McAfee virus scan thinking that
was the issue. Nope. I uninstalled iHateSpam thinking that would help it.
Nope.

It seemed to be solved when I entered the BIOS and turned of Hyper-Threading
and then immediately CPU usage of Outlook 2000 was down to 1% max. Is this
a known issue? Any resolution that doesn't involve turning off
Hyper-Threading?

Just for your information, I have the following software that interacts
directly with Outlook 2000:

iHateSpam 3.2.132
McAfee Virus Scan Professional 7.0

I appreciate any help.

Brad
 
Have you tried a re-install? I have OL 2000 on an Intel 865PERL board with
HT and a P4 2.4ghx processor using XP Home. I've had no problems at all.
 
based on this thread, i'm wondering if the original poster installed SP3 for
Office/Outlook 2000 and it is configured in Internet Mail Only mode. There
is/was an issue of high cpu utilization once sp3 was released and it had to
do with reminders on items. the options was to install an additional fix or
turn off reminders on all items.
 
Yes I do have SP3 installed for Outlook 2000 while using internet only mode
for mail. Do you know where I can get a fix for the issue?

Bradley


neo said:
based on this thread, i'm wondering if the original poster installed SP3 for
Office/Outlook 2000 and it is configured in Internet Mail Only mode. There
is/was an issue of high cpu utilization once sp3 was released and it had to
do with reminders on items. the options was to install an additional fix or
turn off reminders on all items.
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Thanks for that link. Unfortunately it does not alieveate the problem.
After installing the update and rebooting, I start task manager and then
Outlook2000 for it to now show about 50% CPU usage were before it was about
70%. Once I turned off Hyperthreading again, that completely eradicated the
problem. I'm tempted to just stay at SP2 since I'm not a fan of OutlookXP.
 
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