SLOW Windows Mail in Vista

SPUBOL · Jul 26, 2007

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This webpage refers specifically to
Windows Vista Email which is the default built-in email client in
the
Vista O/S. It does NOT pertain to the Outlook Client which is a part
of
Office 2003 and 2007 and usually enabled for corporate exchange
server
users.

In Win/XP the default built-in email
client was called &quotOUTLOOK EXPRESS&quot, and was contained in
mostly all
previous versions of Windows Operating Systems. The program was
called
EXPRESS because it was fast and easy to use and closely resembled
the
fatted calf called the Outlook Client. By resembled I mean in look
and
feel only. 

In the Windows Vista O/S, the Outlook Express
program is
not present. It has been replaced by &quotWindows Mail&quot. Please
note that Microsoft
may have renamed this product by the time you read this.

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The issues in Vista Windows Mail that
this
workaround specifically applies to are as follows:

1. Ten Second Plus Delay on
&quotCREATE&quot
New Email Message.

2. Ten Second Plus Delay on
&quotREPLY&quot
or &quotFORWARD&quot Existing
Email Message.


3. Variable Delay in &quotAutoFill&quotEmail
Address from Address Book.

4. Ten Second Plus Delay When
Called
From a Web Browser to &quotCREATE&quot a
New Email Message.

Please note that I was able to reduce the delays
above,
which were very painful and increasing in duration, to less than 2
seconds....and in most instances to under 1 second. My Windows Vista
Mail now
has the Speedy Response of Outlook Express V6.

The issue at stake is the HTML handler in the
Windows
Email. By simply toggling the HTML Send Encoding Format to another
setting seems
to fix the problem in the current instance. The details are spelled
out below
and in graphic format as well. But please remember this is a Current
State
WORKAROUND and NOT A FIX !!!! A current state workaround means that
you must
perform the workaround every time you open Windows Vista Mail. If you
do not
perform the steps below each time you will automatically revert back
to the 10
Second Plus Pain. Please see the explanation below as to why this 10
Second
Delay Exists and the caveats to employing this workaround.

If you like ugly emails, as in ASCII Text, you
may turn off
the HTML feature completely and simply use plain text to read and
reply to all
emails. This is very similar to moving back in time to circa 1973 !!!
It is the
highly non-recommended solution to your high-priced operating system
purchase.
Your emails will look as though they originated from Yahoo !!!
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The Current State Workaround, as illustrated
below:

In your Main View of Mail (not in a
message), 

 Click on
TOOLS, 


Options, 


Send Tab,


HTML Settings... Button (Mail Sending
Format)


In the &quotEncode Text Using:&quot
Drop Down
Button simply Change it to one of the 3 possible settings.


If it is set to &quotQuoted Printable&quot then
change it to &quotNone&quot or
&quotBase
64&quot


If it is set to &quotNone&quot then
change it to &quotQuoted
Printable&quot or &quotBase 64&quot..... etc.,
etc....


Click OK Button and then APPLY and OK to save the settings.

 <img border="0" src="images/HTML-1.jpg"
width="601" height="587">

<img border="0" src="images/HTML-2.jpg" width="450" height="271">

CAVEATS:

This is a current state workaround and must be
used each
time you open Windows Mail in Vista. Additionally, even after
employing the
workaround you may experience reversion back to the initial delay
state. This
usually happens if you have email open and you don't use it for a few
minutes.
The program may experience a delay upon initial re-use (after a few
minutes of
non usage) but the subsequent delays will vanish. 

GENESIS OF THE DELAY:

There are a number of schools of thought as to
why this
delay exists. The most prominent reasoning deals with the Google/
Microsoft Wars,
currently being managed by the forces from within at Fort Redmond.
There are
over 50 million Vista Users, which translates into 50 Million 10
Second Delays
for EACH Email SENT or READ. That is an amazingly colossal amount of
time.
During each 10 second delay, Microsoft is stealing the cycles from
your PC and
using them, en masse, in the war on Google. Each 10 second delay is
creating
over 75 false server hits in the background of your PC, which causes
Google
servers to believe the hits are legitimate http requests from a bona-
fide
client. 

This would seem like a decent technical strategy
to kill
off Google, however, it is having the opposite affect. Google is able
to charge
more for it's advertising because it truly believes more eyeballs are
viewing
its paid and unpaid advertising. In online revenue, eyeballs are worth
more than
gold or cocaine! 

With the increasing web traffic, generated by
Microsoft,
Google stock continues it's astronomical ascent. Apparently Google,
which fields
the largest PC Server farms on the planet, is able to add more
resources more
quickly than Microsoft anticipated (Imagine that). It may take another
6 months
or so before Microsoft realizes that their strategy is doomed to
failure. In
Redmond employees only think within the bun, and never outside it, so
Google
will always have 3 legs up on their closest competition.

In other words, don't expect a Microsoft patch/
update/fix
or whatever to correct this ugly problem anytime in 2007. Alternate
input is
welcome- eddie@SPUBOL.com 

Hope this helps !!!!

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