SLOW Windows Mail in Vista

Posted July 26, 200717 yr

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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

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 It has been replaced by &quotWindows Mail&quot.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.

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 &quot</

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Address from Address Book.

4. Ten Second Plus Delay When

Called

From a Web Browser to &quotCREATE</

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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,

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Send Tab,

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HTML Settings... Button (Mail Sending

Format)

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In the &quotEncode Text Using:&quot

Drop Down

Button simply Change it to one of the 3 possible settings.</

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If it is set to &quotQuoted Printable</

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change it to &quotNone&quot or

&quotBase

64&quot

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If it is set to &quotNone&quot then

change it to &quotQuoted

Printable&quot or &quotBase 64</

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etc....

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

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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 </

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Hope this helps !!!!

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