SLOW Windows Mail in Vista

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I added this page to an existing website with step by step graphics

and easy to comprehend explanations. It is available at NetOrator so

just add the dot com and you are there!

 

http://NetOrator.com eddie@SPUBOL.com

 

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 "OUTLOOK

EXPRESS", 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It has been replaced by "Windows Mail". 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 "CREATE" New Email Message.

2. Ten Second Plus Delay on "REPLY" or "FORWARD" Existing Email

Message.

3. Variable Delay in "AutoFill"Email Address from Address Book.

4. Ten Second Plus Delay From a Web Browser to "CREATE" 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 !!!

 

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 "Encode Text Using:" Drop Down Button simply

Change it.

If it is set to "Quoted Printable" then change it to

"None" or "Base 64"

If it is set to "None" then change it to "Quoted

Printable" or "Base 64"....etc....

Click OK Button and then APPLY and OK to save the

settings

 

Please see the website NetOrator dot com for graphics and step by step

instructions.

 

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 !!!!

"Eddie Miller" eddie@SPUBOL.com