Why is Outlook 2003 using so much memory?

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gandolf the green

I'm running Outlook 2003 on Windows XP sp3. I have noticed a massive amout
of RAM being tied up by outlook.exe in the task manager even when the program
is not running. As a mater of fact, the outlook.exe line shows up from 3 to
7 times in the task manager process list and each is using over 60,000 K. I
have no idea how to fix this. I've tried the new profile route and it
doesn't work. Ideas?
 
B

Brian Tillman

gandolf the green said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 on Windows XP sp3. I have noticed a massive
amout of RAM being tied up by outlook.exe in the task manager even
when the program is not running. As a mater of fact, the outlook.exe
line shows up from 3 to 7 times in the task manager process list and
each is using over 60,000 K. I have no idea how to fix this. I've
tried the new profile route and it doesn't work. Ideas?
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If you see multiple OUTLOOK.EXE processes, then Outlook isn't properly
closing. See if anything here helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm
 

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