On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:51:47 -0700 (PDT), Underwater Mike
<UnderwaterMike@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>I recently switched OSes from XP Pro (32-bit) to Vista 64 Ultimate,
>loaded all my software and settings, and went to town. For some
>reason, Outlook 2003 is having excessive difficulty connecting to my
>hosted Exchange account. I'll get a "trying to connect" message for
>up to a couple minutes before I am prompted for the password. After
>that, Outlook will sometimes stay connected and sometimes will not.
>(No pattern there; just seems random.) Other times, the connection
>will time out without ever asking me for my password.
>
>My Exchange host (1&1) says that the problem is not on its end, and I
>tend to agree. If I exit Outlook on the Vista box and try to connect
>using my account info on a backup XP box, everything runs smoothly.
>Exit the XP box and hop back onto the Vista box, and the problem is
>back. And, just to recap, everything worked smoothly on this machine
>prior to the Vista install, which was a clean wipe and reformat. I am
>also not having issues with any other Internet-related activity -- web
>browsing, FTP, gaming -- nor is there any issue when connecting to a
>POP source. It's only Exchange that is giving me headaches.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas what the issue could be and how to fix it?
>I note that a Google search yields a lot of similar posts, but no
>resolution.
>
>Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
Try turning off autotuning in Vista:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled