Very Slow Opening Vista Mail

[Mike T]

When I open vista mail, it takes a good 2 to 3 minutes for the inbox to
display. This is very annoying. My inbox has exactly 2 messages in it. I
do however have several dozen folders with lots and lots (over 250 thousand)
of messages in them. OE opened in less then 5 seconds to the inbox. Anyway
to speed up this piece of junk. (OUTLOOK is out of the question), and I
prefer not to have to change to thunderbird or some other mail program if at
all possible.

 

[Dennis]

More than likely your anti-virus software is scanning all of the messages.

I've got McAfee and that's what it does too. Unfortunately, it also locks
up the folders in the process so that I can't see any of the messages. But
that's a different thread...

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Mike

Have you turned off auto compacting so that compacting is not
occurring? Tools, Options, Advanced, Maintenance. Change the default
100 to 1 and close Outlook Express. After compacting has completed
ruin Disk Defragmenter. Does Outlook Express load any quicker?

Gerry