After a reboot was forced by installing an application this morning my machine was extremely sluggish. A slow computer can be a sign of some serious problems, so I opened up the task manager to see what was doing what. I found that MS SQL Server was eating up 100% of the CPU cycles and digesting over 200 megs of RAM. I’m used to SQL Server’s appetite, and it usually gets full within a minute, so I waited. After it calmed down I noticed that Outlook took it’s turn eating my computer’s innards. Something in there didn’t sit well with it, as it quickly regergitated over 2700 reminders onto my screen. Fortunately, since I’m using Outlook 2007, all the reminders appeared in a list on a single window instead of throwing up 2700 different screens as older versions would have. I noticed that the reminders were from my contacts in Business Contact Manager, a CRM addon bundled with some editions of Office. Since the data is stored in the SQL Server, I knew why my machine was bogged down - Outlook was searching through the entire database. But I didn’t set any reminders, and certainly wouldn’t have set 2700. I didn’t have any marketing compaigns or any other things that would trigger the reminders. After googling for a solution I came across a post on a blog showing the solution. Evidently it’s a known bug, and I solved the problem by typing the following into the Start | Run menu:      Outlook /CleanReminders I’m glad it was a simple solution - I didn’t feel like responding to 2700 reminders.