
Fix Outlook High CPU Usage Caused by Antivirus Scanning
Symptoms and Likely Cause
You notice Outlook consuming 50% or more CPU, making your syste...

You notice Outlook consuming 50% or more CPU, making your syste...

You enter your credentials, the screen flashes, and you're back at the login prompt. Sometimes yo...

You're working, and suddenly your fan spins up, the system feels sluggish, and Task Manager shows...

If Windows Defender is eating up CPU or memory and also failing to run scans, update definitions,...

You're using Chrome and suddenly see a message like 'Sync is paused due to a rate limit' or 'Temp...

If you search for files or emails in Windows and get no results or see an error that the indexing...