WD2000: CPU Usage Increases Using Word as Your E-Mail Editor

• Microsoft Word 2000
• Microsoft Outlook 2000

SYMPTOMS

Sometimes when you use Word as your e-mail editor in Microsoft Outlook 2000, the central processing unit (CPU) usage of your computer system may increase to almost 100 percent and there may be a lot of disk activity. This problem is most likely to occur when you have more than one e-mail message open at a time and are doing a lot of switching between open messages.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, turn off the Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages option in Microsoft Outlook. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.



2. On the Mail Format tab, clear the Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages check box.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. 

Additional query words: vba

Keywords : kbdta wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug