Outlook is causing spikes in CPU

[Tolar]

I had to reinstall my Vista Laptop and after getting all the programs
installed and Outlook 2007 configured to our corporate exchange and the sync
was successful.

My system started acting very strange and I noticed that the CPU was spiking
every 3-5 seconds and when I closed Outlook the spiking stopped. I can not
find anything that is causing this.

Any ideas?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Windows Indexing? Leave Outlook open and running overnight to see if it stops - indexing can take a substatial period of time to complete.

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After furious head scratching, Tolar asked:

| I had to reinstall my Vista Laptop and after getting all the programs
| installed and Outlook 2007 configured to our corporate exchange and
| the sync was successful.
|
| My system started acting very strange and I noticed that the CPU was
| spiking every 3-5 seconds and when I closed Outlook the spiking
| stopped. I can not find anything that is causing this.
|
| Any ideas?

 

[Tolar]

I thought it was indexing, but I saw on another post to remove Dell
Mediadirect. I did and the spiking stopped and the system is running better.
So, what is the correlation between Outlook and MediaDirect? That is the
question now.