Microsoft Mail Freezing

[Nickyrock]

I submitted a problem report on this earlier today, but wanted to relay in
case others were experiencing the same thing.

When I am in the Microsoft Mail program and goto tools/options and click the
advanced tab the mail program freezes and I have to kill it using task
manager.

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Nickyrock
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[Chad Harris]

Nicky--

I haven't seen this any build, and it may be a unique bug, but having
reported it, in the meantime see if you can defeat this behavior by
defragging often, stopping services you don't need, killing processes listed
on the Task Man process tab you don't need-- and end services at
services.msc in run box that you don't need. Google them or possibly find a
site that has them explained--once again MSFT failed to build this into Task
Manager or Services.msc. I'd run 2-3 Spyware scanners regular, Defender
that comes with Vista, Adaware, and Spybot. I witheld mentioning SFC one of
my favorites in Win XP because of the unacceptable and ridiculous state it's
in ten months into the Beta.

Many of the steps I'd follow are listed in this link; it hasn't been updated
to include some of the new services and processes in Vista but soon will be.
The link on Windows no boots will be updated to include Win RE, BCDEDIT and
other fixes for Windows when and if MSFT every publishes adequate info on
them or books on Vista contain enough info--whichever happens first--most
probably the latter. I would caution you that the SFC delivered thus far in
Beta 2 is an unstable and potentially destructive utility, not at all
reliable as it is in Win XP. So far MSFT has said next to nothing except
chance mentions that it should be used only with a verifyonly switch as
sfc.exe/verifyonly which scans for defective files but does not fix them.

Speed and Unfreeze PC and Clean Windows; Remove Spyware
http://tinyurl.com/znqxh

I wonder how many people associated on the Vista beta would have their
broken car checked out by an auto repair and hvae significant problems that
need fixing and leave without fixing the car? That's the SFC they've given
you because for many users running sfc /scannow trashes the Vista registry
and gives you a no boot Vista in need of Windows RE. It is a good way to
set up a test scenario for Win RE though.

Additionally try making a new profile and see if the Windows Mail in that
profile does the same thing. If it does, that indicates this is more
systemic on your box than a particular Win Mail problem.

Also you can try these--in case you do have a confined problem specific to
Win Mail:

1) The default path for the message store is
C:\Users\{user account}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

Try moving (not deleting) all files out of that folder and then start
Windows Mail. It should create a new empty store folder.

2)
In regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail
and remove "\WindowsMail.MSMessageStore" from the Store Root Value, so it
looks something like:

S:\Data\WindowsMail

Not all Vista machines will have that value--and why I'm not sure.

Good luck,

CH






Good luck,

CH