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Thanks Mark. Your idea of the latest service packs took me to Microsoft's site. &nbsp;Although I had the latest SP3 pack I did find find Knowledge base article 811167 which addresses the problem directly. &nbsp;I installed the 'fix' and all is well.<br />
Thanks!<br />
Jay
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Thanks Mark. Your idea of the latest service packs took me to Microsoft's site.  Although I had the latest SP3 pack I did find find Knowledge base article 811167 which addresses the problem directly.  I installed the 'fix' and all is well.
Thanks!
Jay

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Glad to have helped! &nbsp;Take care.<br />
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Mark
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Strange occurrence when launching Outlook 2000. After about 10 – 20 seconds of the program running I noticed the CPU cycles (usage) shoot up to 60% and fluctuate between 55 and 60 until I shut down the program -Outlook. &nbsp;With Outlook running this slows down the machine considerably.<br />
Here are some other facts:<br />
-no excess hard drive usage – just cpu<br />
-removed all running programs and unnecessary system files from starting<br />
-removed McAfee virus scan<br />
-in Task manager you can see Outlook.exe and System Idle Processes going wild! <br />
P4 2.8 with new hard drive – clean install of XP Home and Office 2000 Pro.<br />
Has anyone seen this?<br />

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Strange occurrence when launching Outlook 2000. After about 10 – 20 seconds of the program running I noticed the CPU cycles (usage) shoot up to 60% and fluctuate between 55 and 60 until I shut down the program -Outlook.  With Outlook running this slows down the machine considerably.
Here are some other facts:
-no excess hard drive usage – just cpu
-removed all running programs and unnecessary system files from starting
-removed McAfee virus scan
-in Task manager you can see Outlook.exe and System Idle Processes going wild! 
P4 2.8 with new hard drive – clean install of XP Home and Office 2000 Pro.
Has anyone seen this?


Outlook 2000 using excessive CPU cycles

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.