I use a Dell laptop with 1Mb RAM with Windows XP O/S, and have Office
2003 installed. On initial start-up the computer uses about 500 Mb
memory with 70 processes running. After starting Outlook and
downloading emails, I see that memory usage has jumped to 1.3 Gb or
even higher. This causes the computer to slow down in other programs.

How can I do the following:
1. Check exactly which processes are using the memory (the Mem Usage
listing in Task Manager doesn't help).
2. Stop Outlook using the memory (perhaps a setting I have overlooked).

By the way, the current size of my email folders is about 250 Mb so
loading these into memory is not accounting for all the memory usage.

Hi

I tracked the problem down to a McAfee SpamKiller add-in. When I
disabled the the problem went away. It's a pity the anti-virus guys
can't stick to their knitting (e.g. anti-virus) instead of developing
bloatware that does lots of stuff badly.

So the problem has now been solved.


Errol wrote:
I use a Dell laptop with 1Mb RAM with Windows XP O/S, and have Office
2003 installed. On initial start-up the computer uses about 500 Mb
memory with 70 processes running. After starting Outlook and
downloading emails, I see that memory usage has jumped to 1.3 Gb or
even higher. This causes the computer to slow down in other programs.

How can I do the following:
1. Check exactly which processes are using the memory (the Mem Usage
listing in Task Manager doesn't help).
2. Stop Outlook using the memory (perhaps a setting I have overlooked).

By the way, the current size of my email folders is about 250 Mb so
loading these into memory is not accounting for all the memory usage.