[G4] Office v.10 hogs the Processor

Brian Silverio bsilverio at necc.mass.edu
Thu Apr 1 06:37:36 PST 2004


You can turn off the spell check and background repagination.
But it will still burn CPU.  One of the things is does is to keep sending
broadcasts over your network looking for duplicate serial numbers.

Brian


Quoting "Daniel Brieck Jr." <djbrieck at mac.com>:

> Does anyone else who has MS office v.x notice how much processor power 
> the Microsoft Word.app takes up while sitting idle with an open 
> document. According to Activity Monitor it is taking about 10% of the 
> processing power?
> 
> Is that a standard feature or what?
> 
> Power Mac g4 500 MHZ
> 896 Mb of ram
> Mac os 10.3.2
> Office v.x Info
> 
> About: Microsoft Word X for Mac Service Release 1
> v 10.1.4 from get-info finder window
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Brieck Jr.
> 
> 

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