Outlook 2000 100% CPU Utilization Fix

For those of you who use Outlook 2000, SP3, and have been severely annoyed when it occasionally took up 100% of your CPU power, Microsoft has finally released a patch for it.

More info here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811167

Comments

larry says:

Thank you for the URL to the Outlook patch, it worked great.

franky says:

thanx a lot, it worked perfect.
I did not find this patch in the MS knowledge base, but i found it with google, 🙂

Andy says:

Had to view many sites and forums from Google researching this problem. You guys had it right on — problem solved. Thanks alot guys!!
Also, great site, I will be back.

George Skafidas says:

Hi guys, I spend a lot of time searching in Microsoft’s support pages trying to find this solution with no success.
Thank you

Thanks – it worked for me as well. My computer was really CPU bound. Thanks for your work on this site.

John says:

I found the update, applied it, and I’m still getting 100% CPU issues…hmmm…

Peter says:

Applied this patch to Terminal Server. Problem solved. Thanks

Charlie K says:

Thanks, quick, to the point and it worked.

Jean CORDIER says:

As for other people, great thanks for this solution which is not visible in MS KB (boring MS…)

SteveB says:

Great. Thanks

Pierre says:

I am still getting a lot of CPU on Terminal Server Outlook. How should I know if the patch is correctly applied?

Brian says:

I’m also having the same problem; applying the above patch did not work. I can click on a few email once Outlook opens but invariably within a few clicks CPU usage spikes up to 100% and I have to kill Outlook in the task manager. Has anyone found any other solution?

Garry says:

Thank-you. This problem popped up after a (forced) re-install. Fix did the trick.

Bodie says:

Right on! Glad you are at the top of Google’s list.

patricia says:

Drats, the hotfix installer systematically encounters an error (1601) and so i can’t install the patch! Even a reinstall of windows instaler does not help and my cpu is constantly at 100 percent….
Any ideas???

joshua says:

Thanks. It was a real bit– of a problem. I almost switched to thunder and lightning from mozilla.

Randeweg says:

My cure was to NOT display:
“voorbeeldweergave”
in Dutch..
in English: (litteral)
example reproduction
Menu> Picture..? (=3th from the left: not the 1st = FILE , not the 2nd, but..the 3th from left)> then example …
Sorry, I don’t have the English version…
SUCCES!!
THNKS for the suggestions!!
Greetz,
Ro.

Alex says:

I don’t think that there is a tool that interaction direct with CPU on 100%,but try-fix outlook 2000 contacts list,program, that is 100% compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server, that is why it represents one of the most popular mail clients,recover all emails, contacts, messages, tasks and calendars,also all contacts, as well as messages, tasks and calendars are stored in *.ost format,can export contacts to *.vcf files, that can be exported to Personal Information Management (PIM) tools or Windows Address Book,on the end can recover a list of files in *.eml, *.vcf and *.txt formats.

Thanks very much for this fix suggestion, going to try this on a pc that starts using over 50% cpu after sending and recieving. PC is running Outlook 200 IMO.

After installing this patch on Office 2000 SP3 the CPU usage hasn’t gone above 50% again. Thanks very much for posting this fix!