unexplained Word hyperactivity

[teflon]

I have several RTF, DOC, and TXT files that, when open in Word, cause CPU
"overclocking," i. e. reaching the full 100% use of the CPU.
I discovered this after loading these documents and hearing the CPU fan
working like a jet engine.
Now I monitor processes by the graphs in the Task Manager. When this
overclocking happens, Windows application is shown to be active, but no
further details.

The Word Spell checker, smart tags, bullets and numbering are off.
A simple 2kb TXT file causes the same turbo overclocking as a giant RTF
file,
which is almost 2 Mb.
The files were created on the same PC running XPHome. The rest of the files,
some 200 in all, do not cause the CPU to heat up.

Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[Jezebel]

We've already had this discussion.

 

[Guest]

Hi there. Does it run continually while you have the document open or just when opening. If just when opening, where are you opening from? From networked drives, floppies or CD makes the computer work harder. Is it always the same files? If so, try doing a save as and creating a copy and see if its does the same thing.

If you are opening and saving to floppies you will get dire warnings from lots of people on here so careful when you respond. It is not recommended at all. Corrupts documents etc.

Also, we had a computer doing the same thing and it ended up being a severely fragmented drive. Running Defrag on it helped applications open things quicker and easier.

 

[Nathan]

Yes, I have seen this exact same activity. It occurs for
me when I try to open a badly formatted RTF document. It
always happens when Word is opened automatically as a
child process of one of the svchost.exe services.

Nathan