Re: Office 2004 questions for Microsoft

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Nate Goldshlag (nateg_at_remove_me_first_pobox.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:37:46 -0500

In article <BC3FD10C.43F9%john@mcghie.name>, John McGhie [MVP Office
Systems -- Word] <john@mcghie.name> wrote:

> > 2. Has Microsoft fixed things so that Word does not take up 10% of my
> > CPU at times when it is just open, with no document open? I have a 1
> > GHz G4 Powerbook. This does not always occur, but does often.
>
> No. It was an Apple bug, and I believe Apple has fixed it. Word will
> consume slightly more CPU in the next version because it does more. In Word
> X, a lot of the smarts in the PC version code were disabled to gain more
> speed. Some of them are being put back in.
>
> Word never used 10 per cent of the CPU or anything like it, but a bug in the
> OS X system tuning parameters meant that Word "appeared" to be consuming 10
> per cent of the CPU. On older versions of the OS, Word 2004 now "appears"
> to be using 12 to 15 per cent of the CPU. However, if you start another
> application that really is using some CPU, the indication for Word drops
> back to its realistic value, which is about 0.8 per cent.
>

Sorry, John, but you are wrong. Today Word was consuming around 25%
with a document open doing nothing. I launched a verilog compiler via
the terminal which usually takes about 95% of the CPU. Word stayed at
25% and verilog could only get about 70%. The 25% was real, and Word
should have been doing nothing.

Word, by the way, is the only application that I have seen that does
this.

Nate