Windows Mail is slow to compose/reply/forward

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How do we escalate this to microsoft to get this fixed.

I just spent an hour at a client today, and had the same issue, before I saw
this discussion. After deleting his 7000 contacts that were imported from OE
on his old XP computer, the delay in bringing up the composing message window
dissapears.

My guess is somehow whiel brinign up the compose message windows it starts
indexing the contacts.

People are getting upset about this as they cannot import their contacts....








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Same problem here imported 7000 contacts now it takes about 10 seconds
for composing or replying an e-mail.
this must be fixed by MS
 
Windows Mail is meant for light duty use.
Sounds like you need a heavy duty mail program such as Outlook.
I doubt that MS will improve Windows Mail (a free program) to the
point where it competes with their cash cow Outlook.

BTW, if you insist on bottom-posting, please trim the amount
of quoted text. It helps to be courteous to your fellow Usenet
reader.

Gary VanderMolen
 
I had a client with 1000 contacts and it was causing a 25 second delay. I
eventually figured out that if I uncheck the "autocomplete email addresses as
I type" (can't remember the exact wording, but it is somewhere in Tools >
Options) check box. The delay goes away - it is obviously loading/indexing
all email addresses for this purpose before it finishes "drawing" the compose
window, but why does it do it every time you compose an email??? Why can't it
just load it up when Windows Mail is first loaded???
 
I have a brand new Dell Inspirion 1501 with Vista Home Ultimate and do not
have that problem. However, that is not to say i don't have a problem with
WinMail!! My problem is that when i start my computer and then i open WinMail
it tells me its already running and to close it if i want to open a new
window. However it is not open but is running. I go into task manager and end
the process and it will open and run fine after that. It is not listed in
Windows defender in the Softwear Explorer under the Start-up programs. How do
I get it to stop starting the process on start up?
 
If that doesn't fix it, run MSCONFIG.EXE, go to its Startup tab
and see if WinMail.exe is listed there. If so, uncheck it.

Gary VanderMolen
 
Nunjafush said:
I had a client with 1000 contacts and it was causing a 25 second delay. I
eventually figured out that if I uncheck the "autocomplete email addresses
as
I type" (can't remember the exact wording, but it is somewhere in Tools >
Options) check box. The delay goes away - it is obviously
loading/indexing
all email addresses for this purpose before it finishes "drawing" the
compose
window, but why does it do it every time you compose an email??? Why can't
it
just load it up when Windows Mail is first loaded???
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That worked perfectly for me, getting rid of the delay - thanks! But there
ought to be a way to not have the delay but be able to type the first few
letters and get it to fill in the contact you require, as with Outlook
Express - has anyone found a way?

Ian
 
If that were the problem, they'd have it opening up also when Windows
starts. Something is launching it in the background. Could be a gadget.

steve
 
Mcafee is not scaning email, and the only things that are running are the
basic's to strat the system. I have went through everything it is not listed
in msconfig. Anymore ideas?
 
Hi, Steve,

As someone else asked, how does the issue of Windows Mail being slow to
compose get kicked up to get addressed as a fix, SOON?

I've disabled autocomplete, but that is a royal pain, and a high price to
pay for my email not hanging for 15 seconds or so everytime I try to open a
message, reply, or forward.

This is a really significant bug, and one that obviously doesn't *have* to
happen, since it never used to happen in Outlook Express.

Can you give us some sense of (1) whether you've kicked this over to the
folks tasked with fixing problems? and (2) what they are estimating as a
timeline for a fix?

Thanks,

Sylvie McGee
(e-mail address removed)
Olympia WA
 
Did you try the fix that was posted here earlier today?
Tools, Windows Calendar. Then close the Calendar.

I'm curious, did disabling auto-complete give you a
significant speed increase?

Gary VanderMolen
 
I didn't try the calendar fix - in part because disabling auto-complete gave
me an immediate and huge speed increase. But maybe I should put the
auto-complete back on and try the calendar trick....

Thanks for the reminder!

Sylvie
 
I don't have any answers to your questions. MS doesn't discuss timelines of
product releases or fixes with anyone outside of MS.

I and other MVPs have expressed your frustration and that of users in
general with the way WinMail has turned out and the many problems users are
having.

sorry.

steve
 
Thanks, Steve,

I appreciate that it's been kicked over to MS to be addressed! Too bad they
don't keep the MVPs in the loop about timelines/plans for making fixes. That
puts you all in an awkward middle place!

Sylvie McGee
 
Thanks for confirming that disabling auto-complete results in a huge
speed increase. I had suspected as much for those who have many
contacts. Due to how auto-complete is coded, WinMail needs to
keep the entire contact list in memory, thereby leaving less memory
available for executing other functions.

Gary VanderMolen
 
Hi, Gary,

I still don't understand why this is showing up in Windows Mail, and never
did in Outlook Express - I had just as many contacts in OE, and never had
this kind of lag. This is certainly not am improvement in my view!

Sylvie
 
Go and look in the key (with regedit):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\Domains
and see what is in that key. Personally i deleted the key (after exporting
to saft location) and created a new key with the same name (Domains). Then my
problem was solved.
// Per Fahlberg
 
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