Access 2007 CPU always at 50%

I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen. Strangely, when I open the options dialog
box the processor goes back to zero, but reverts to 50% when I close the
options dialog box.

Yes, I know it sounds silly, but any suggestions are welcome.
--
Jay C.

is there a more concrete symptom/problem? is operationally slow?
--
NTC


"jtcolber" wrote:

I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen. Strangely, when I open the options dialog
box the processor goes back to zero, but reverts to 50% when I close the
options dialog box.

Yes, I know it sounds silly, but any suggestions are welcome.
--
Jay C.

This strange behavior has been happening for at least a decade. A single
processor would often drive the cpu to 100%, but give up the cpu as soon as
something else needed it. I've heard different things like it's just a false
reading in the Task Manager to it's really driving the cpu that hard but it
doesn't hurt anything.

For my next computer I might get a quad-core. That way I'll only see 25%! ;-)
--
Jerry Whittle, Microsoft Access MVP
Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. Keith Bontrager - Bicycle Builder.


"jtcolber" wrote:

I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen. Strangely, when I open the options dialog
box the processor goes back to zero, but reverts to 50% when I close the
options dialog box.

Yes, I know it sounds silly, but any suggestions are welcome.
--
Jay C.

Things aren't real slow, I can generally get things done, though I haven't
done anything yet that would require heavy processing.

I did open an .accdb that had a missing VBA reference. The problem seemed
to start after that.
--
Jay C.


"NetworkTrade" wrote:

is there a more concrete symptom/problem? is operationally slow?
--
NTC


"jtcolber" wrote:

I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen. Strangely, when I open the options dialog
box the processor goes back to zero, but reverts to 50% when I close the
options dialog box.

Yes, I know it sounds silly, but any suggestions are welcome.
--
Jay C.

Jerry Whittle wrote:

This strange behavior has been happening for at least a decade. A single
processor would often drive the cpu to 100%, but give up the cpu as soon as
something else needed it.

You're thinking of ACC: Microsoft Access Shows 100% CPU Utilization
During Idle Time http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=160819 However
that should've been fixed in A2000 and newer. I've never seen this
problem since I stopped using A97.

Tony
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jtcolber wrote:

I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen.

What happens when you open an empty MDB?

Is there some startup code which is running in a loop? Or maybe a
timer event that mistakenly runs code every millisecond rather than
every minute.

Tony
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When I open a blank mdb it still goes to 50%. I don't have any startup code
that I am aware of.

I appreciate your replies.
--
Jay C.


"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote:

jtcolber wrote:

I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen.

What happens when you open an empty MDB?

Is there some startup code which is running in a loop? Or maybe a
timer event that mistakenly runs code every millisecond rather than
every minute.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/

If you leave it longer, does it eventually drop? You get this
same behaviour with no mdb loaded?

Access 2007 can take 5 minutes to fully check and complete
it's installation process. It does the check everytime it starts,
but I don't know that it should take that long to complete,
unless it is a new installation, or you have been running A2000.

Or you may be seeing some kind of behaviour from your
anti-virus softwa can you turn that off and try again?

Or it may be some strange Windows Vista behaviour:
'optimising' or something like that.

Or it may be some strange network behaviour: is it the
same if you disconnect from the network?

(david)


"jtcolber" wrote in message
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I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen. Strangely, when I open the options
dialog
box the processor goes back to zero, but reverts to 50% when I close the
options dialog box.

Yes, I know it sounds silly, but any suggestions are welcome.
--
Jay C.

jtcolber wrote:

When I open a blank mdb it still goes to 50%.

Now that's really interesting. And that wouldn't be any startup code
obviously. I have no idea then.

Tony

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I am experiencing the same behavior with Access 2007 on a dual processor
machine Running XP SP2. It doesn't seem to matter if a database is open but
idle, a blank database is open or even no database open. Is there a patch
for this?

"jtcolber" wrote:

I recently upgraded to Access 2007 from 2003. When I open the application
the CPU goes and stays at 50% (dual processor CPU) even when sitting and
doing nothing on the title screen. Strangely, when I open the options dialog
box the processor goes back to zero, but reverts to 50% when I close the
options dialog box.

Yes, I know it sounds silly, but any suggestions are welcome.
--
Jay C.