Installing office 2007 gets me a consistent 20-30% increase in Explorer's CPU?

[urlwolf]

Hi,

I don't know if this is common, or not.
Installing office 2007 gets me a consistent 20-30% increase in Explorer's CPU. according to process explorer, even when the computer is iddle, the process is taking 1/4th of the CPU!

I know that Office 2007 was supposed to be a resource hog, but this is explorer itself. I think this is the only new application I have installed. It's probably worth it, but I'm sure my batteries are going to last very little. If this is normal behavior, we better start carrying a car battery with us and the laptop...

Have you experienced anything similar?

[urlwolf]

I forgot to say, it feels like the entire system is being interrupted: scrolling in firefox is slower, Moby's DC popup application slowed down when showing a window, etc...

[Josh]

I have o2k7 running on several pc's with no issues like you describe.

[CWuestefeld]

Installing office 2007 gets me a consistent 20-30% increase in Explorer's CPU. according to process explorer, even when the computer is iddle, the process is taking 1/4th of the CPU!

-urlwolf (February 04, 2007, 09:13 AM)

No such problem here  . I've been using Office 2007 since the first beta, and never run into this. Checking Process Explorer right now, explorer.exe is registering 2% or less consistently.

[f0dder]

Sounds weird... does office2007 come with some indexing service or similar?

[CWuestefeld]

does office2007 come with some indexing service or similar?

-f0dder (February 04, 2007, 02:25 PM)

There's an upgrade to MS Desktop search, including integration with Outlook. If this is the first installation of that, you'll get a bunch of up-front activity as it scans everything. But (a) that should only last for like a day, I'd think; and (b) it doesn't show up in that process either -- it's got its own search indexer process.

[Cloq]

I quite like O2k7, especially Outlook. Thinking about switching over to outlook '07.

As far as CPU time being consistantly eaten, I haven't seen or noticed.

[lanux128]

i don't use Outlook 2007 but there's a thread here that goes along the similar line..
What Does MS Say About Outlook 2007 Slowness Issue? ETA for soln?