Does anyone know how to fix a memory leak in Outlook 2000?

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Chris Purcell

I am getting a memory leak due to opening Microsoft Outlook 2000. When I
open it, I immediately get a Virtual memory message and when I look at it in
task manager, the VM size goes all the way up to 840,000 KB. All my service
packs are up to date, and I have no Add-ins.
Does anyone have a solution?
My system is Windows XP SP2, and I have 256MB of Ram
 
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Ben M. Schorr - MVP

I'd upgrade both your RAM and your Outlook - more or less in that order.
256MB is pretty thin for Windows XP.

How large is your PST file?

Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
 
C

Chris Purcell

My PST is 12.8 mb.
The weird thing is that it was running fine a couple weeks ago, and now it
eats up the memory. I didn't do anything unusual to warrant this leak. I
did re-install outlook and it still didn't work right. I also have all the
service packs loaded as well.
 
B

Ben M. Schorr - MVP

Well, 12.8MB is not significantly large. 256MB of RAM is still rather thin.
Have you scanned your system for viruses and spyware?

Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
 
R

Rich Petrosino

I have the same problem. It just started all the sudden. I have downloaded
all microsoft patches and updated my system. CPU usage % is fine, but commit
charge rises to 1.7GB when trying to open outlook. How can I fix?
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Do you have the MSN toolbar installed? If yes, then the Windows Search may
be at fault.

--
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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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After furious head scratching, Rich Petrosino asked:

| I have the same problem. It just started all the sudden. I have
| downloaded all microsoft patches and updated my system. CPU usage %
| is fine, but commit charge rises to 1.7GB when trying to open
| outlook. How can I fix?
|
| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|
|| Well, 12.8MB is not significantly large. 256MB of RAM is still
|| rather thin. Have you scanned your system for viruses and spyware?
||
|| Aloha,
||
|| -Ben-
|| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|| Roland Schorr & Tower
|| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|| Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm
||
|| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|| assistance. Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup.
|| Mahalo!
||
|| message ||| My PST is 12.8 mb.
||| The weird thing is that it was running fine a couple weeks ago, and
||| now it eats up the memory. I didn't do anything unusual to warrant
||| this leak. I did re-install outlook and it still didn't work
||| right. I also have all the
||| service packs loaded as well.
|||
||| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|||
|||| I'd upgrade both your RAM and your Outlook - more or less in that
|||| order. 256MB is pretty thin for Windows XP.
||||
|||| How large is your PST file?
||||
|||| Aloha,
||||
|||| -Ben-
|||| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|||| Roland Schorr & Tower
|||| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|||| Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm
||||
|||| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|||| assistance.
|||| Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
||||
|||| message
|||| ||||| I am getting a memory leak due to opening Microsoft Outlook 2000.
||||| When I
||||| open it, I immediately get a Virtual memory message and when I
||||| look at it
||||| in
||||| task manager, the VM size goes all the way up to 840,000 KB. All
||||| my service
||||| packs are up to date, and I have no Add-ins.
||||| Does anyone have a solution?
||||| My system is Windows XP SP2, and I have 256MB of Ram
 
R

Rich Petrosino

I don't believe I have the MSN toolbar installed. Any other ideas? Will
removing outlook and reinstalling help?


Milly Staples said:
Do you have the MSN toolbar installed? If yes, then the Windows Search may
be at fault.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Rich Petrosino asked:

| I have the same problem. It just started all the sudden. I have
| downloaded all microsoft patches and updated my system. CPU usage %
| is fine, but commit charge rises to 1.7GB when trying to open
| outlook. How can I fix?
|
| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|
|| Well, 12.8MB is not significantly large. 256MB of RAM is still
|| rather thin. Have you scanned your system for viruses and spyware?
||
|| Aloha,
||
|| -Ben-
|| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|| Roland Schorr & Tower
|| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|| Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm
||
|| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|| assistance. Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup.
|| Mahalo!
||
|| message ||| My PST is 12.8 mb.
||| The weird thing is that it was running fine a couple weeks ago, and
||| now it eats up the memory. I didn't do anything unusual to warrant
||| this leak. I did re-install outlook and it still didn't work
||| right. I also have all the
||| service packs loaded as well.
|||
||| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|||
|||| I'd upgrade both your RAM and your Outlook - more or less in that
|||| order. 256MB is pretty thin for Windows XP.
||||
|||| How large is your PST file?
||||
|||| Aloha,
||||
|||| -Ben-
|||| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|||| Roland Schorr & Tower
|||| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|||| Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm
||||
|||| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|||| assistance.
|||| Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
||||
|||| message
|||| ||||| I am getting a memory leak due to opening Microsoft Outlook 2000.
||||| When I
||||| open it, I immediately get a Virtual memory message and when I
||||| look at it
||||| in
||||| task manager, the VM size goes all the way up to 840,000 KB. All
||||| my service
||||| packs are up to date, and I have no Add-ins.
||||| Does anyone have a solution?
||||| My system is Windows XP SP2, and I have 256MB of Ram
 
B

Ben M. Schorr - MVP

Did you try running Detect & Repair? (Help menu)


--
Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!

Rich Petrosino said:
I don't believe I have the MSN toolbar installed. Any other ideas? Will
removing outlook and reinstalling help?


Milly Staples said:
Do you have the MSN toolbar installed? If yes, then the Windows Search
may
be at fault.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Rich Petrosino asked:

| I have the same problem. It just started all the sudden. I have
| downloaded all microsoft patches and updated my system. CPU usage %
| is fine, but commit charge rises to 1.7GB when trying to open
| outlook. How can I fix?
|
| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|
|| Well, 12.8MB is not significantly large. 256MB of RAM is still
|| rather thin. Have you scanned your system for viruses and spyware?
||
|| Aloha,
||
|| -Ben-
|| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|| Roland Schorr & Tower
|| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|| Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm
||
|| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|| assistance. Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup.
|| Mahalo!
||
|| message ||| My PST is 12.8 mb.
||| The weird thing is that it was running fine a couple weeks ago, and
||| now it eats up the memory. I didn't do anything unusual to warrant
||| this leak. I did re-install outlook and it still didn't work
||| right. I also have all the
||| service packs loaded as well.
|||
||| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|||
|||| I'd upgrade both your RAM and your Outlook - more or less in that
|||| order. 256MB is pretty thin for Windows XP.
||||
|||| How large is your PST file?
||||
|||| Aloha,
||||
|||| -Ben-
|||| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|||| Roland Schorr & Tower
|||| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|||| Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm
||||
|||| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|||| assistance.
|||| Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
||||
|||| message
|||| ||||| I am getting a memory leak due to opening Microsoft Outlook 2000.
||||| When I
||||| open it, I immediately get a Virtual memory message and when I
||||| look at it
||||| in
||||| task manager, the VM size goes all the way up to 840,000 KB. All
||||| my service
||||| packs are up to date, and I have no Add-ins.
||||| Does anyone have a solution?
||||| My system is Windows XP SP2, and I have 256MB of Ram
 

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