The compact and repair database functions sometimes will help with
performance issues such as you describe. Also disable antivirus scanning of
email. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 and
www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/
steve
"Diane V" <DianeV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8AC1EFE5-61A4-431F-A718-CE15A849134C@microsoft.com...
> I've recently starting getting "not responding" when I try to click on an
> email. It will eventually display, sometimes, in the preview pane, but is
> extremely slow even at the beginning when starting up. Closing program or
> restarting does not help either.
> What is the WMultil program mentioned and how do I get it? If that's what
> I
> should do(?)
> --
> Diane
>
>
> "Bob" wrote:
>
>> Steve, it seems from reading many posts that there is something a bit
>> screwy about Vista Mail. I personally get a " not responding " message
>> whenever I try to open or save an attachment. I will then run your great
>> program (WMutil) and all is well again for a short while. Obviously
>> something is causing this to break, but for the life of me I can not
>> figure it out. I have done all the fixes you have suggested and am on my
>> third AV program NOD32 and still it persists. I am running a clean
>> install of Vista Ultimate on a 3 month old high end laptop. I am running
>> the current version of Thunderbird mail and it is doing an excellent job
>> so far,but am hoping you might find a permanent fix for Vista Mail.
>> Thanks for all you do for the NG..
>> Bob
>>