response time of 'create mail'

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Andy Tymeiz

Has anyone a suggestion to reduce the time to open a new message window? When
I hit the Create Mail button, I have to sit and wait 30 secs for the window
to open. New install on new Vista machine, seems daft for such a simple thing
to take so long. TIA Andy.
 
I haven't tested the workaround and how feasible it is, but you can parse
your contacts into different directories and when you then go to Tools |
Windows Contacts you can then select another directory than the default to
get a contact. For instance, if you go to Tools | Windows Contacts now and
right click and choose New Folder and create a new folder and call it
Contacts1. Then move 1000 contacts from the original Contacts folder to
Contacts1. You can then do that for 10 x to cover the 10,000 you have and
select from those Contacts1-Contacts10 subdirectories.

Now that may not be very useful, but that is what the gist of the workaround
is from what I gather, and you can test it.

You might also consider getting Outlook or continuing to use OE via an XP
Virtual machine installed on the Vista Desktop.

steve
 
Another workaround (in addition to what Steve mentioned) is to
upgrade to Windows Live Mail: http://download.live.com/wlmail

Windows Live Mail allows you to associate a group of contacts with
a specific Live ID ([email protected], (e-mail address removed)). You could
get 10 different Live IDs, and WLM will allow you to switch among
them to access the different sets of contacts. A bonus is that the
contacts are automatically synced to the web version, so you always
have an up-to-date backup.
 
I think Windows Mail was not designed to be used for such a high volume of
messages and contacts. I assume there is other software that would be more
useful in many ways. Outlook can be customized with macros, and even if you
are not a programmer, you are likely to be able to get pre-existing macros
that would help. The type of thing that would likely help is the ability to
conveniently access additional information about each contact.
 
They broke what worked in OE.

steve

Sam Hobbs said:
I think Windows Mail was not designed to be used for such a high volume of
messages and contacts. I assume there is other software that would be more
useful in many ways. Outlook can be customized with macros, and even if you
are not a programmer, you are likely to be able to get pre-existing macros
that would help. The type of thing that would likely help is the ability to
conveniently access additional information about each contact.
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How do you know? Did you write it?

People have used OE for many things that were unexpected by MS. The point
is they broke the contacts in Vista so that they could no longer be used as
before in OE.

steve
 
I did not write it but I have used it and I know it does not have many
useful features.
 
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mickeymouse


Steve Cochran said:
I haven't tested the workaround and how feasible it is, but you can parse
your contacts into different directories and when you then go to Tools |
Windows Contacts you can then select another directory than the default to
get a contact. For instance, if you go to Tools | Windows Contacts now and
right click and choose New Folder and create a new folder and call it
Contacts1. Then move 1000 contacts from the original Contacts folder to
Contacts1. You can then do that for 10 x to cover the 10,000 you have and
select from those Contacts1-Contacts10 subdirectories.

Now that may not be very useful, but that is what the gist of the workaround
is from what I gather, and you can test it.

You might also consider getting Outlook or continuing to use OE via an XP
Virtual machine installed on the Vista Desktop.

steve
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