Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, made the off-line folders
syncronization in Outlook and Windows XP a processor priority 1 thread, the
lowest possible.  This by itself isn't so bad, but MS also made this feature
a critical path for the user interface in these products.  Turn off-line
folders off.

Mike.

"Brian Cleverly" <Brian.cleverly@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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my seti program has been chugging away on my Laptops for a few tears now
quite happily from one Pc upgrade to another. however I have found that
with outlook 2002, when the client does a synchronisation with the
server, it takes hours if seti is still running. If I take seti off,
then it's minutes. i notice on the Task manager that Seti has 99% of the
resources, but it does seem to release them when I use other programs.
BTW I have Seti on all the time. The laptop runs w2000 pro, has 256Mb
RAM & a P4 1.4G processor. as above, I only have issues when Outlook is
synchronising, any ideas?