Since installing Outlook 2013 I noticed that officeclicktorun.exe has been consuming the most CPU of any running app. It takes focus of the machine when I'm in the middle of working on another app which is very annoying.
I understand that it's installed on any machine with an Office 2013 product and automatically set to run. I can't understand why a simply update program would consume so much CPU. Is this a known issue?
I found that there is a scheduled task that was set to run automatically. I turned that off and now the program won't run until I run Outlook. But once I run that, the program takes off and becomes a resource hog.
I went to Office -> Office Account and disabled all updates. The program still runs like crazy. I tried disabling the service but then Outlook won't start. How can I use outlook without an additional app that appears to be a resource hog?
I got in the habit of using Outlook and then killing that .exe. That doesn't work. The .exe keeps coming back for no known reason. I can disable the service to get it to stop running again but then I have to re-enable the service if I want to run Outlook again. This is crazy!
I can't believe that a simple method of stopping all automated upgrade activity isn't being provided by Microsoft.