Outlook taking half the CPU power

[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

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

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.)

 

[simonc]

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.