I am wondering why my wife's HP Laptop with an AMD Touron chipset runs slow
when she tries to delete emails from outlook. I observed the computer's
performance with the task manager resource meter and have noticed that when
she deletes email, the CPU usage spikes to 100% which appears to be causing
the computer to become unresponsive. Given enough time the computer
sometimes returns to normal when the email is finally deleted or stays
unresponsive. I don't have this problem with my older HP laptop. What is
likely causing Outlook 2003 to do this?