Cursor/hourglass flickers; Outlook unresponsive

[Mike Jacoubowsky]

Very frustrating problem on my laptop. WinXP Professional, Outlook 2003,
Windows OneCare. When you're reading or responding to mail in Outlook 2003,
all is fine for the first several minutes. Then you notice the cursor
flickering a bit, and very shortly thereafter it rapidly (very rapidly,
maybe 10 times/second) alternates between a cursor and an hourglass, and
Outlook becomes completely unresponsive. CPU utilization climbs upward of
90% for Outlook.

This seems to be a function of time and nothing else. I can't make it not
happen, and I can't make it happen (aside from just spending some time in
Outlook, that is!).

Everything used to work just fine; no major changes. This started maybe a
few weeks ago. Thanks-

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA

 

[Mike Jacoubowsky]

Very frustrating problem on my laptop. WinXP Professional, Outlook 2003,

Windows OneCare. When you're reading or responding to mail in Outlook
2003, all is fine for the first several minutes. Then you notice the
cursor flickering a bit, and very shortly thereafter it rapidly (very
rapidly, maybe 10 times/second) alternates between a cursor and an
hourglass, and Outlook becomes completely unresponsive. CPU utilization
climbs upward of 90% for Outlook.

Ran detect & repair, which seems to have fixed it. Hope this helps someone
else-

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com