Vista - Slow on startup, to read email, to check email, anything really

Hi.
I had outlook express and i loved it, and then it started not allowing me to
change fonts, and it went all winky.
people here told me to switch to 'Windows Live Mail', so I did and it's
driving me insane.

I have 5 email accounts hooked up onto it, NO rss feeds, no communities, the
log on thing is off, i have nothing extra.

When I first load it, it takes a good minute to open, once it finally opens
it will 'freeze' on a section, finally get to the section, and when i click
on an email to open it, it 'freezes' again, and after a minute or two it
finally shows it.
Even something like a facebook message which is what? 2 kb? takes a good
30-60 seconds to open.

My PC is an HP, quad core, 2 gb ram, vista, 2.4 ghZ

What can I do cause this is driving me NUTS!!!!

thanks if anyone has any suggestions!

aj

Micron PC, 2.4Ghz, overclocked to 3.0, 2GB RAM, Pentium 4, Vista Sp1, 11 accounts(6 Pop3, 4 Http/DeltaSync()

...8 seconds to load WLM


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...winston
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"AJ" <AJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:10A9505E-0704-4FC0-9726-2E25FC574F94@xxxxxx

Is that new math? 6+4 = 11
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"...winston" <winstonmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e5ISYUMvJHA.2376@xxxxxx

8 seconds is great, too bad mine takes 7.5 times longer minimum!

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

Something else must be involved(AV, other background apps etc) besides hardware, memory, and speed since the system for those specs
is over 6 yrs old and yours by design should be much faster and responsive.

As a comparison(not equal) where hardware should make a difference.... on an XPSp3 1Ghz, 512MB Ram, 2x AGP with those same 11
accounts it takes 28 seconds to open after a cold boot, 13 sec after close and open probably due to XP's Prefetch cache.



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...winston
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"AJ" <AJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:C7B6E1FC-FEA6-4C89-AD33-E4AF224FCA6F@xxxxxx

Does that include sign-in? On a restart of WLM, the main screen
comes up in 2 seconds, but the cursor continues to spin for
another 3 seconds.
System: Sony Vaio laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU @1.5GHz, 2.5GB RAM,
currently booted to the Vista SP2 partition.
Not really a fair comparison since I have all the mail accounts
unchecked from "Include this account..."
I use the Vista partition mainly for newsgroups only (with WM), and
the Windows 7 partition is used with WLM for email.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"...winston" <winstonmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:e5ISYUMvJHA.2376@xxxxxx

Yes, that is total time......and your system is a bit more efficient in processor and memory speed, and most likely also on the
graphics chip.

Here the screen comes up in 2-3 seconds..then the cursor spins 5-6 seconds.

How many accounts do you have and how many contacts in the database(default or Live signin) ?


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...winston
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"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ONc2ezUvJHA.5836@xxxxxx

i have 5 accounts and as for contacts i keep deleting and now i'm at 76/


"...winston" wrote:

I was asking Gary, sorry if it seemed to be a general question soliciting a global response.

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...winston
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"AJ" <AJ@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:5244DE75-29F7-48B8-BE46-79C83E98DA8C@xxxxxx

On the Vista partition (which is somewhat barebones) I have
3 POP accounts, 1 IMAP account, and 1 Hotmail DeltaSync account.
Using Live sign-in, 128 contacts.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"...winston" <winstonmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:e8%23YjBbvJHA.248@xxxxxx