Vista - Re: why is windows mail so slooooowwww?

I'll just jump in at the top here.

McAfee and your antispam programs are contributing to the slow performance.
There are quite a number of problems being caused by such (see the windows
mail newsgroup that I'm xposting to).

You need to turn off email scanning. see www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 Its
turning out even worse for WinMail.

DBX files are a thing of the past. The current situation is that there is a
single database file that holds the abstracted information from the messages
and the messages themselves are now stored as individual eml files that are
located under directories that match the folder names in WinMail.

For more information see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx which also includes
information on importing from dbx files.

As to the performance, I tested folders in the beta that had over 132,000
messages in them and the performance was not great, but it was not as slow
as you seem to be experiencing. I would ascribe most of that slowness to
McAfee et al., but you can also help performance some by compacting the
database. See my utility that allows for that to be easily accomplished:
www.oehelp.com/WMUTil/

steve

<invader@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
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> Windows mail appears to be far slower than Outlook express was back when I
> was running XP.
>
> For example, a search by "From" in my deleted items folder takes at least
> 2-
> 3X longer. There are approximately 150,000 emails in that folder. Even
> sometimes searching my Inbox which only has about 1,000 emails in it takes
> longer than OE did.
>
> Frequently the program becomes nonresponsive for a couple of seconds when
> doing something. A good example is when replying to a message. It'll blank
> out for a second or two while its "thinking" about something.
>
> Deleting emails is slightly sluggish, and occasionally when I click an
> email
> to view it, it'll pause for a few seconds.
>
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