Outlook 2003 says "receiving mail from Exchange server" and slows down whole computer

[Jay Bryan]

This message appears seemingly randomly and when it does, the computer slows
to a crawl. It took me like 5 minutes to get to the task manager to see that
a process called SERVER was taking up 99% processor utilization. I haven't
waited it out to see how long that darn thing takes, but always have to
physically turn off the PC and restart it.

This profile has a hotmail account on it too, so could that have anything to
do with it?

Has anyone had similiar problems and if so, how did you fix them?

Jay

 

[Vagabond Software]

This message appears seemingly randomly and when it does, the computer slows
to a crawl. It took me like 5 minutes to get to the task manager to see that
a process called SERVER was taking up 99% processor utilization. I haven't
waited it out to see how long that darn thing takes, but always have to
physically turn off the PC and restart it.

This profile has a hotmail account on it too, so could that have anything to
do with it?

Has anyone had similiar problems and if so, how did you fix them?

Jay

The few times I have seen this problem it was an email virus scanner or spam killer application not playing nice with anyone else. If you have either a SPAM killer type app or an email virus scanner, disable that functionality and try again.

carl