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| Guest | Windows live mail client very slow For past one week my windows live mail client is very slow. It takes about 30-40 seconds for each mail to download or even display an existing one. All actions - sending, receiving, reading an existing mail, opening the mail client and closing takes very long, 30-40 seconds may be a minute sometimes. After I noitced this I installed Vista SP1 (enterprise) but that didn't help. I even uninstalled and reinstalled live mail, didn't help either. Anyone knows what could be going on and how to resolve this? I have another PC where it seems to work fine, just this one is having issues. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Thanks - axcons2005 |
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| Guest | Re: Windows live mail client very slow "axcons2005" <axcons2005@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:03450A88-669A-4AB2-AEBA-0ADEABFFD67A@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Windows live mail client very slow Thanks for your response. The one that is having issues has 4GB RAM and the other one that is working has 2GB. I have run anti virus and anti spyware several times and didn't catch anything. -- Thanks - axcons2005 "robertmiles@xxxxxx" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Windows live mail client very slow You're welcome. My guesses of what caused the problem seem wrong, so you'll have to wait for someone else to answer. "axcons2005" <axcons2005@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:FD2FF438-6DAE-47DF-92D1-E5FC5844AE71@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Windows live mail client very slow I had a similar experience recently with one of my Vista machines. Not only was WLM dog slow, but the same was true of other Windows programs. The only thing that fixed it was a complete reinstall of Vista. -- Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP <robertmiles@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:e3w4$CfuIHA.1936@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Windows live mail client very slow I agree Vista is generally a tad slower. WLM seemed to work fine until last week, not sure why suddenly it just started crawling literally to a point that it is unusable. Everything seems slower since last week. I initially thought it could be some virus or spyware/malware but I have done several anti virus and spyware runs and none caught anything. May be SP1 installation made it worse but I couldn't tell for sure. The only thing I remember doing unusal last week was installing the windows gadgets and I have even disabled the service as it was resource consuming. -- Thanks - axcons2005 "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Windows live mail client very slow (cross-post added to Vista Perf & Maint) "axcons2005" <axcons2005@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:9205A863-F7E0-4BA0-8747-9D7E8E052162@xxxxxx
Do you hear your harddrive working hard then? If so, it could be a sign of thrashing. That's what Robert Miles was probably thinking of when he asked you about your RAM. Your answer: <quote> The one that is having issues has 4GB RAM and the other one that is working has 2GB. </quote> That's what Windows is supposed to be seeing? Are you sure it really is seeing that and using it properly? Use Task Manager to check. E.g. open it at the Performance tab. Also you could open it at the Processes tab and sort by Page Fault Delta. (You may have to add that column to that tab.) Then just scroll to the maximum (e.g. press End if you're sort is ascending) and see which tasks are the most active from that perspective. FWIW when I do that in XP I usually see signs of the WDS trying to start inappropriately (even when I have tried to control it by setting Snooze AND stopping the task with net stop wsearch.) The problem is that something, perhaps WLMail, restarts that task. Then I have to prevent that from happening with: sc config wsearch start= disabled Unfortunately I hardly ever remember to undo that to let the searchindexer task do its thing when I leave my computer. Another thing that I do, since my system is very constrained by real memory is change the task priority for the tasks which I want to focus on or ignore. It seems to help change the paging rate somehow. Unfortunately the SearchIndexer task will not allow itself to be downgraded in priority, which is why I have to disable it and hence often end up forgetting about it. If that really isn't the right performance area for you to focus on you could try getting some more clues by starting PerfMon and if necessary using it to monitor a more pertinent set of counters. BTW that tool may have changed in your OS from the way that I know how to use it. See if this helps get you started: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true Cross-posting to the Vista Performance NG Good luck Robert Aldwinckle ---
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| Guest | Re: Windows live mail client very slow Thanks everyone for the repsonses. I logged a support incident with MS WLM technical help group. I was told that my account was not configued correctly and was asked to remove the account and add again. I did that and eveything seems to work fine. I don't know what could have caused my account to be incorrectly configured as I had never changed anything from the time I installed WLM the first time on this machine. Anyway, this seems to be resolved, I was going nuts thinking I was hit with a virus or spyware and have been spending too much time trying to figure that and cleanup. I am glad it is all over now. BTW I did find in the process that my machine was consuming too much physical memory. I was constantly at 65% memory utilization, I removed some unwanted services, stopped superfetch (don't know what that is or if it is good or bad but found that in some posts) and brought it down to like 45%. Great learning experience. -- Thanks - axcons2005 "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
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