In that case, my original suggestions are still valid.

#1 Use Task Manager to verify what process is using the CPU time when you
shut down Excel. It may not be Excel itself - it could be an add-in within
Excel.
#2 Check the amount of available space on the hard drive you are writing to.
It could be low.
#3 If it is Excel, then using your original Office/Excel 2000 CDs, you
should be able to do a repair installation (basically installing from the CD
using the same settings you originally used). This can cause some updates to
require re-installation after the repairs are complete.
#4 There may be a hardware issue with memory (RAM) involved. A good test
for your memory is Memtest86, available as a free download from:
http://www.memtest86.com/ once you start running it, it will run until you
stop it. The longer you allow it to run, the more opportunity it has to find
a bad memory card. Consider starting it when you leave the office/go to bed
and letting it run overnight.
#5 Least likely since we are only talking about one application being
affected, but not impossible, would be a virus on the machine. Run a full
scan of your system using your installed anti-virus program, plus consider
running some of the on-line tests from sites like (these are all reputable,
good anti-virus companies)

Kaspersky Labs scan (I use KAV products and trust them very much), at
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

eset's product: http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

F-Secu http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml

Trend Micro's Housecall: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

BitDefender scanner: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

Panda Security's scanner:
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeuse...ns/activescan/

and of course, the standard ones provided with most new systems (and thus
the direct targets of many viruses and worms)

Symantec (Norton) :
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/d...d=ie&venid=sym

McAfee: http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp

there are other reliable, reputable ones also, but if you can pass through
those, then you have a clean machine. There are also others that are not so
reputable and will falsly report problems just to sell you their product.
Never take the results of just one site/product's tests as the absolute
gospel.




"Jasper Recto" wrote:

The issues is not the size of the files. The files that I've open is less
than a 1MB. Also, it happens when I open a new document. Just the act of
closing Excel causes the CPU usage to spike.

I have checked an this only does it with Excel. Word, Outlook, Access and
other programs don't do this, just Excel.

Thanks,
Jasper

"JLatham" <HelpFrom @ Jlathamsite.com.(removethis) wrote in message
...
Very good point. I'd been thinking along the lines of "there is some
problem", while you have thought about "things may be working properly -
but
the file itself has changed".

"Dave Mills" wrote:

Check the size of the excel file. I recently saw one of mine that has the
share
workbook facility on grow from 2 MB to 76 MB. When I turned off Sharing
and
opened and closed the document it shrank back to just under 2MB. The
effect of
having 70MB opening was a long delay in opening and closing the file.


On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:37:20 -0400, "Jasper Recto"
wrote:

I have computer that has Windows 2000 with Excel 2000. When the user
closes
excel, the CPU usage spikes between 70 and 100%. It stays that way for
about 15 seconds.

After you close Excel, you can't open up anything because the CPU is
being
taxed.

This only started about 2 weeks ago and it only does it with Excel.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jasper

--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that
don't.