Are you perhaps running Windows Desktop Search? I've seen a number of
reports of problems with that program.
Also in Tools, Options, General, is WLM set to check for messages every
XX minutes? If so, set that for no more often then every 15 minutes and
see if it makes any difference.
--
Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Stan Shankman" <stantheman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> WLM hogging CPU
> Renders itself and XP into slow mode . . .
>
> Greetings newsgroupers,
>
> I have been using WLM for a few weeks now.
> When I first loaded and ran it, WLM brought over all of my Outlook
> Express messages and accounts - took it a long time too!
> Yet once installed, it stared out working okay however it did seem to
> run a little slow - at least by comparison to Outlook Express. I was
> starting to like WLM, and could live with the slight slowness. But in
> the past few days, things have gotten much worse.
> I am using WLM even now to post this message. So it is not entirely
> disabled, but, things are not right.
> (In fact, I just checked and right now CPU usage is normal for WLM. -
> Maybe this problem only arises when I am in the "Mail" tab. ??)
>
> Here are my symptoms:
> When I first start Windows Live Mail, it runs off and completes its
> message gathering operations okay. I can use it for a brief few
> seconds right after it first starts, but then spontaneously and
> unexpectedly it starts hogging big CPU. It is difficult for me to
> fully characterize this problem, but WLM just start eating a lot of
> CPU. I do not know what it is doing. It happens over and over, and I
> must force closed WLM if I am to use my computer. One time I left it
> run in that high-CPU-state overnight, hoping that maybe it was simply
> doing some internal housecleaning or some such thing. But in the
> morning, task manager still reported over 90% CPU usage. I cannot use
> WLM in this state. The entire computer runs at a crawl because of it,
> and I am forced to use task manager to kill WLM so I can regain
> control of my machine. (Windows XP Pro)
> And now, I am totally dependent on WLM for all my messaging needs, and
> it has created a serious difficulty for me.
>
> Also, note this:
> I have an extraordinarily large collection of messages. And I
> subscribe to quite a few newsgroups (and news servers), and have an
> extensive archive of past saves for those messages too. The bottom
> line is, I have a large data base.
> Yes, I do my backups.
> Oh, and I do not run any virus or spyware programs other than Windows
> Live One Care.
> My machine is (has been) well behaved, and I do not suspect any memory
> or other hardware problems.
> I only have problems with WLM.
>
> What must I now do to get WLM to start behaving properly?
> Thanks all,
>
> - Stan
>
> Oh oh, even as I composed this mail, WLM spontaneously started using
> big CPU. Task Manager now reports WLM at over 80%.
> I hope this message will send! And I hope I am able to read any
> replies.