Vista - Very Slow Opening Vista Mail

When I open vista mail, it takes a good 2 to 3 minutes for the inbox to
display. This is very annoying. My inbox has exactly 2 messages in it. I
do however have several dozen folders with lots and lots (over 250 thousand)
of messages in them. OE opened in less then 5 seconds to the inbox. Anyway
to speed up this piece of junk. (OUTLOOK is out of the question), and I
prefer not to have to change to thunderbird or some other mail program if at
all possible.

More than likely your anti-virus software is scanning all of the messages.

I've got McAfee and that's what it does too. Unfortunately, it also locks
up the folders in the process so that I can't see any of the messages. But
that's a different thread...

"Mike T" <mike_tavares@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uE74Q7XaHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> When I open vista mail, it takes a good 2 to 3 minutes for the inbox to
> display. This is very annoying. My inbox has exactly 2 messages in it.
> I do however have several dozen folders with lots and lots (over 250
> thousand) of messages in them. OE opened in less then 5 seconds to the
> inbox. Anyway to speed up this piece of junk. (OUTLOOK is out of the
> question), and I prefer not to have to change to thunderbird or some other
> mail program if at all possible.
>
>

Mike

Have you turned off auto compacting so that compacting is not
occurring? Tools, Options, Advanced, Maintenance. Change the default
100 to 1 and close Outlook Express. After compacting has completed
ruin Disk Defragmenter. Does Outlook Express load any quicker?

Gerry


"Mike T" <mike_tavares@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uE74Q7XaHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> When I open vista mail, it takes a good 2 to 3 minutes for the
> inbox to display. This is very annoying. My inbox has exactly 2
> messages in it. I do however have several dozen folders with lots
> and lots (over 250 thousand) of messages in them. OE opened in
> less then 5 seconds to the inbox. Anyway to speed up this piece
> of junk. (OUTLOOK is out of the question), and I prefer not to
> have to change to thunderbird or some other mail program if at all
> possible.
>
>