Re: Help.. Please! Outlook 2003 using 100% CPU every few seconds.. run out of ideas!

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From: Bravestar (Bravestar_at_datenschutzministerium.de)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 07:39:29 +0200

Hi Paul,

it is not even an Outlook Problem.
It is an Win XP Bug.
If you goes into the control panel
View
Tools
Effects

there you deactivate the point, use overeffects for menues and quickinfos.

Than your Proz going down. 

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"Paul" <pauljd70@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi anyone with an idea!
>
> I have a 1.2 Ghz/800Meg PC with Outlook 2003 running on it.  I said
> teh first bit to show that its not on a small system.
>
> Outlook 2K3 is behaving really badly.  its installed on XP SP1 with
> all the most up to date patches.
>
> Every 5 or 6 seconds Outlook simply locks the CPU at 100%.  Watching
> this in Task manager is like watching a square wave.  Regular as
> closckwork, and its Outlook.exe thats peaking at 100% CPU usage every
> few seconds.
>
> I use a pop3 acount so no exchange issues here, and I am not using
> business contact manager
>
> This locks outlook and makes it almost impossible to use.
>
> It does not happen in any other application or Office product.
>
> I have looked online and tried every solution:
>
> Disable smart tags
> Make sure Office source engine is set to manual
> Turn off menu transitions
> Set Outlook to use plain text rather than word as editor
> Repaired the pst file with scanpst
> Unistalled and re-installed
> Applied newer patch from Ms KB artical that stated that the older
> patch could cause an issue
> Set the send recieve option to 10 mins
> Set the save option to a greater interval
>
> And a few others I cant remember.
>
> still it behaves like a pig.
>
> So before I go back to OL2K I thought I would post in the hope that
> someone has fixed this and has a suggestion.
>
> I have to say that the number of posts that say OL2K3 is a pile is
> amazing.  Looks pretty, has some nice functions but appears to suck
> badly on the usability front.  I like to form my own opinions on
> things but I am starting to agree with the general sentiment that it
> is a pile.  Usual MS.. loads of work on the front end.. bugger all on
> the back end.
>
> Anyone help please!
>
> Paul

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