EXTREMELY slow New Message window

While Windows Mail is crashing fairly frequently with me, the most
consistent and disruptive problem is that when creating a new email message,
it will take from two to four MINUTES for the New Message window to open
completely.

What happens is that the New Message window is formed, but only the
framework. There are no buttons, no labels, just blank address slots,
subject line, and text area. None of this is labeled and doing ANYTHING AT
ALL while the rest of it loads causes WM to crash. What I have to do is
wait for two to four minutes, and then suddenly all the labels will appear,
the buttons will materialize, and everything works fine.

The same basic thing happens when hitting Reply on an existing email.

The equivalent does NOT happen in newsgroups. Posting a new message or
replying works just fine.

I've terminated my anti-virus (Avast!) scanning of email, and I've rebooted.
No change in the problem.

Jim Beaver

You may want to uninstall Avast completely, to see if that will cure the problem.
Are you running any other non-Microsoft security software like anti-spyware?

You can also try the fix for sluggishness:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...low.html?ltr=W

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


"Jim Beaver" <jumblejim@prodigy.spam> wrote in message news:EnQ1j.26763$Pv2.14153@newssvr23.news.prodigy. net...
> While Windows Mail is crashing fairly frequently with me, the most
> consistent and disruptive problem is that when creating a new email message,
> it will take from two to four MINUTES for the New Message window to open
> completely.
>
> What happens is that the New Message window is formed, but only the
> framework. There are no buttons, no labels, just blank address slots,
> subject line, and text area. None of this is labeled and doing ANYTHING AT
> ALL while the rest of it loads causes WM to crash. What I have to do is
> wait for two to four minutes, and then suddenly all the labels will appear,
> the buttons will materialize, and everything works fine.
>
> The same basic thing happens when hitting Reply on an existing email.
>
> The equivalent does NOT happen in newsgroups. Posting a new message or
> replying works just fine.
>
> I've terminated my anti-virus (Avast!) scanning of email, and I've rebooted.
> No change in the problem.
>
> Jim Beaver
>

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
news:O2UhyzmLIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> You may want to uninstall Avast completely, to see if that will cure the
> problem.
> Are you running any other non-Microsoft security software like
> anti-spyware?
>
> You can also try the fix for sluggishness:
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...low.html?ltr=W
>
> --

No other security or spyware stuff, I don't think. Well, there is something
called Ad-Aware SE Plus, but it only runs when I run it. It's inactive, I'm
pretty sure, otherwise. It's not part of my Startup, either.

Did all the other things you listed or the article suggested.

Jim Beaver

When the usual fixes for Windows Mail don't produce the desired result,
my recommendation is to upgrade to Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


"Jim Beaver" <jumblejim@prodigy.spam> wrote in message news:PeS1j.2901$fl7.129@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net ...
>
> "Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:O2UhyzmLIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> You may want to uninstall Avast completely, to see if that will cure the
>> problem.
>> Are you running any other non-Microsoft security software like
>> anti-spyware?
>>
>> You can also try the fix for sluggishness:
>> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...low.html?ltr=W
>>
>> --
>
> No other security or spyware stuff, I don't think. Well, there is something
> called Ad-Aware SE Plus, but it only runs when I run it. It's inactive, I'm
> pretty sure, otherwise. It's not part of my Startup, either.
>
> Did all the other things you listed or the article suggested.
>
> Jim Beaver
>