Outlook taking half the CPU power

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simonc

This problem has just suddently started today. I'm not
sure if this is an Outlook problem or a Windows problem.

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional with Outlook 2000.
Whenever I open Outlook it sits idle for a moment then
starts taking up to half the CPU of my machine. This is
regardless of whether I am online or not. Windows Task
Manager shows that OUTLOOK.EXE is the program taking all
the power. I can hear the disk drive being active while
this is happening.

Is there some way of monitoring exactly what Outlook is
doing? Could it be looking for a file? I've scanned the
whole machine for viruses and found nothing, but could
there be something causing Outlook to do this?

Grateful for any help
 
If Outlook 2000 is configured in Internet Mail Only mode and you have
recently applied SP3 for Office/Outlook 2000, I would head out to
office.microsoft.com and pickup the December 18th 2002 update for Outlook
2000. (There was an issue with this update that would cause a 100%CPU spike
(50% on dual proc machines) when it came time for reminders to be
processed.)
 
Many thanks for prompt and accurate help. This has solved
the problem. And I DO have a dual processor machine, which
is why it only took up 50% of the CPU.
 
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