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Old 06-22-2007   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Windows Mail Fix for Slowness due to large Restricted Site List

Sorry to hear it. This seems to work well for many (it cleared up the
problem my own PC as well as a few client machines immediately), but there
may be more than one issue causing Windows Mail performance problems.
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"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:euotjXStHHA.4688@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Not in my case..
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> "GTS" <x@y.net> wrote in message
> news:O80O0QQtHHA.4800@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Many users of Spybot (Immunize function) or SpywareBlaster or other
>> programs that add a large number of entries to Internet Explorer
>> restricted sites list experienced a severe performance problem in Windows
>> Mail after running the KB931768 critical update.
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>> The following registry change resulted in an immediate return to normal
>> speed for a number of test cases. The following can be pasted to a .reg
>> file and run. Fix any word wrap so that the text from "[" to"]" is one
>> line.
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>> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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>> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
>> Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MIME_SNIFFING]
>> "winmail.exe"=dword:00000001

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> Mike Hall
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
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