Emails not working from ISP

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New Dell laptop with Vista Basic is hanging on receiving e-mails. It colledts
how many emails are to be downloaded starts downloading the first and then
slows down to a stop. It can work oddly if I get all the emails on my XP
machine and forward them one a time they will get through.

I took Mcafee off the computer when I first got it. There were some residue
bits of Mcafee that I could not seem to shake like windows security telling
me Mcafee firewall was still on when I had ripped though the registry
destroying all traces of it. So i reinstalled Vista on the machine.

Before putting on any anti virus software I checked the emails to see if it
would receive 8 emails that were pending but no, starts receiving first one
then slows down receiving the email till a stop. I also tried with windows
firewall off. There seems nothing wrong with the isp as the internet works
fine on the laptop, the emails come through fine on the XP machine and if the
settings were wrong on the Vista laptop no emails would have ever been
received but I have been able to forward mail one at a time.

This will stump most of you as there is no Mcfee/ Norton issue here. If I
cant resolve it I will have to un-install Vista and use XP.
 
Have you tried the disable 'TCP/IP Auto-tuning' test?

Try this:
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1. Go to the Vista start menu and type cmd
2. The search results will display a program titled cmd
3. Right-click on the link and select "Run as administrator"
4. type "netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled" without
the quotatioin marks
5. Test your POP account and see if you can now download your mail.
6. If nothing changes, re-enable the autotuning feature by typing
"netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal"
 
Tried it but no the emails are commin through so slow. Out of 6 on this test,
the first one made it through but the second failed. It took ages fro the
first email to get through. Incedentally I have used two different routers so
the fault is not their. Can I change my licence for XP?
 
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