Contacts make Outlook sluggish with CPU spiking to 70% every 5 sec

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DaveC

I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 with 2 gig of memory that is running XP and
Outlook 2003, all the latest versions that I’m aware of.

Outlook is causing the CPU usage to peak at 70% for 5 seconds every 10
seconds. During this peak time Outlook and all Outlook related functions are
frozen. At the bottom of these peaks (CPU loading at 0-2%) Outlook functions
as expected.

I have found another entry by Philip Herlihy on 2/21/2007 that describes a
similar condition which was fixed by creating a new profile. I tried this and
it did work, until I imported my contact list and calendar back into this new
profile which brought with it the CPU usage issue. Deleting the contacts and
calendar for this new profile corrected the CPU loading issue. Deleting these
in the original profile had no effect on the CPU loading. I have created
another profile with just the Calendar and Contacts and no E-Mail, this
profile exhibits the CPU issue, as if it is trying to connect to something or
synchronize with something?

Others use the Calendar and contacts with no problem.

I’ve reinstalled Office 2003 and tried everything I can think of and am
stumped – any thoughts or guidance?
 

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