[gavininskip]

Hi there,

I'm running Outlook 2003 with Service Pack update.

It's using 160,000K of memory at the moment, pushing my CPU to 100%

It's running painfully slow - does any one have ideas please??

Many Thanks

Gavin

[Ziggy1]

In the task manager on the process tab, resort the CPU column, which process has the highest number, and what is the value.

I have OL2007 and my CPU is Memory usage is 116,548 K CPU 00.

I had this problem once, it can either be malware/virus ...or oddly enough one time I had an issue with Spoolsv.exe showing 99 in the CPU column...after killing the process the CPU returned to normal...after that I found that I had a hung print job, and after I deleted it completely everything was fixed.

Look at my Post 12 HERE I did have some malware at that time, but I don't know if it was related as removing it did not fix the CPU, but the Print job did.

Might be a longshot but doesn't hurt to check

[gavininskip]

Thanks, yes I did run Malaware...and it seemed to get rid of the Trojan.

Hurrah!!

Thanks loads for that help....saying that though I think my computer is getting old as it's getting quite slow and CPU is up to 100%

[Ziggy1]

what are your specs, if you are still runing at 100% you may still have a problem. Trojans can be difficult to get rid of, even with a malware program. I recommend you post a HJ log in the Security section.

doesn't matter how old your PC is ( unless you really want to go back far), the CPU should not be running at 100% constantly.

[gavininskip]

Actually I've just rebooted it and seems to be okay now.....I think when I installed ie8 it looks for malicious stuff

But if it is a problems still I will def post there

thanks