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Is your Outlook 2000 SP3 spiking to 100% CPU cycles after a few seconds of non-usage, too? I'm discovering more and more people are being sacked by this thing. So, here's something I inadvertently discovered during testing: when a reminder pops up, the CPU returns to normal. The good news is, you can set a reminder and keep it there for the duration of your session. That seems to keep the “100%” at bay. When the program is closed and reopened, you'll have to wait to be reminded once more before everything returns to “normal.” Weird, but it's a workaround that seems to work. At least for me.
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Anonymous
November 25th, 2002
at 7:21pm
A workaround, yes… but that has to be really annoying. I've switched to Entourage as my PIM. I bought an iBook, so I've got my email where ever I go (funny thing, but my Jornada is slowly losing it's usefulness). Hope you find a good PIM that doesn't suck… -up resources like outlook does. ;)
Anonymous
November 25th, 2002
at 8:01pm
We have had this issue at work with Outlook 2000 and the issue is not with Outlook, it is with Word. Our solution at work is to make sure Word is not the default email editor. At this point, we are only using Office 2000 SR-1, so it may not solve your issue. However, its worth a shot.
Anonymous
November 26th, 2002
at 1:13am
Last issue of woodys watch tracked this down to using the 'office insecurity patch'. Put the backup copy of the dll it patches back before doing office SP3 and you should be ok. After that, you don't need the 'office insecurity patch' anymore, you can use atopt (or is that attopt?)since sp3 fixes the problem of not being able to change the attachment stuff through the registry. OTOH, if you reinstalled windows, it's probably not this bug that bit you. Worth checking nonetheless…
Anonymous
November 28th, 2002
at 1:28am
I have spurts of extreme slowness (mouse crippling levels) running Outlook 2000 / Word 2000, occurring on SP2 (SR1a) (NOT SP3 - I have not applied this yet) particularly on W98 but also sometimes on W2kSP3. Word is NOT the default mail editor. Any more ideas?