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Office apps stops working when another Outlook started or running
Hi, I've just upgraded to the latest Insider build (16.0.14226.20004) 64-bit and I'm experiencing the same thing on 2 machines. If Outlook is open and I open Word, Excel or PowerPoint, Outlook b...
I am having the same issue / seeing the same situation. One application open is fine, second application and all become unresponsive.
ShaneRBlake I rolled back from 2107 to 2106 (just changed the beta channel to preview instead) and all the office apps fly super fast now. There's something wonky in the beta build.
It FEELS like it is I/O bound: CPU activity is only 15%, no disk or LAN activity and I have 32gb of memory (only using just above 8gb when the apps freeze). Other apps are affected and slowed down or made less responsive including task manager (though, once TM is running it works the way it should). The apps are competing for a resource it feels like. I get the same symptoms on my much less powerful laptop.
W-Archer I have done the same thing (reverted to Preview). All good here.
