Windows Vista Mail opening automatically

[TomasG]

Hi!

I have a strange problem that I have found no solution for. At regular
intervals Windows Mail starts and jumps to the foregroudn on its own without
any action by me that would cause this behavior. Typical example is when
playing a game/watching a video in full screen mode Mail jumps up and throws
the other program in the background. This is extremely annoying, any
suggestions on what might be causing this? I haved no mail accounts
configured in Mail and I have tried to disable all automatic notifications
and automatic checing for new messages. Help appreciated!

 

[Guest]

Hi!

I have a strange problem that I have found no solution for. At regular
intervals Windows Mail starts and jumps to the foregroudn on its own
without
any action by me that would cause this behavior. Typical example is when
playing a game/watching a video in full screen mode Mail jumps up and
throws
the other program in the background. This is extremely annoying, any
suggestions on what might be causing this? I haved no mail accounts
configured in Mail and I have tried to disable all automatic notifications
and automatic checing for new messages. Help appreciated!

Have you updated the virus database for your antivirus program lately,
then run it?

Do you have more than one antivirus program installed (not a good idea)?

What if any antivirus programs and antispyware programs do you have?

Have you updated the spyware database of your antispyware programs
lately, then run them?

 

[TomasG]

I have Norman antivirus installed, which is updated and I have scanned the
computer without finding anything. No antispyware as the computer is brand
new and I have not gotten around to that yet. The Mail problem was one of the
first issues I noticed when starting to use the computer (and Vista).

 

[Steve Cochran]

Norton is actually a cause of many WinMail problems. Try going to Start |
Search and type msconfig and then look at the startup items. Its likely one
of them is causing the problem and it could be Norton.

steve

 

[TomasG]

If I open msconfig I recognize all theprograms listed under startup, and
none of them should be causing this behavior? Also, Mail is not opened as
part of the startup process, it opens seemingly randomly at some point in
time after the computer has booted. Do you mean that the on-access scanner in
Norton is somehow triggering Mail to start?

 

[Guest]

You can have more than one antispyware program. For the last few
months, I've used both of these:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/single/trialpay.php

 

[TomasG]

Yes I know that I can have various antyspyware programs installed, I have
previously used both the ones you mention. However, I am currently not
interested in antispyware, I am interested in stopping Mail from jumping to
the foreground every five minutes. Is there somehow I can uninstall Mail? I
am not interested in using the software and currently it is making doing
anything else than surfing very hard as it jumps to the foreground all the
timel

 

[Guest]

Windows Mail comes as a part of Vista and is very hard to uninstall
without also doing this to the rest of Vista. You can keep it from
doing much if you open it by removing all the accounts under it,
and delete all the shortcuts that make it easy to start.

I'm not sure you can take away its properties as the default mail
program without making some other program the default mail
program instead.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Also check the services and see what services are running at startup. My
guess would be that in fact Norton is causing the trouble. I don't know how
or why, but the WinMail process doesn't start by itself. You can also
examine event viewer to see what the WinMail extensible storage engine
(ESENT) is doing.

steve

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It would be helpful if you revealed what your preferred email service
is, and whether you have selected it as the default.