Windows Live Mail hogging CPU – renders itself and XP into slow, slow, slow mode . . .

WLM hogging CPU
Renders itself and XP into slow mode . . .

Greetings newsgroupers,

I have been using WLM for a few weeks now.
When I first loaded and ran it, WLM brought over all of my Outlook Express
messages and accounts – took it a long time too!
Yet once installed, it stared out working okay however it did seem to run a
little slow – at least by comparison to Outlook Express. I was starting to
like WLM, and could live with the slight slowness. But in the past few days,
things have gotten much worse.
I am using WLM even now to post this message. So it is not entirely
disabled, but, things are not right.
(In fact, I just checked and right now CPU usage is normal for WLM. – Maybe
this problem only arises when I am in the “Mail†tab. ??)

Here are my symptoms:
When I first start Windows Live Mail, it runs off and completes its message
gathering operations okay. I can use it for a brief few seconds right after
it first starts, but then spontaneously and unexpectedly it starts hogging
big CPU. It is difficult for me to fully characterize this problem, but WLM
just start eating a lot of CPU. I do not know what it is doing. It happens
over and over, and I must force closed WLM if I am to use my computer. One
time I left it run in that high-CPU-state overnight, hoping that maybe it
was simply doing some internal housecleaning or some such thing. But in the
morning, task manager still reported over 90% CPU usage. I cannot use WLM in
this state. The entire computer runs at a crawl because of it, and I am
forced to use task manager to kill WLM so I can regain control of my
machine. (Windows XP Pro)
And now, I am totally dependent on WLM for all my messaging needs, and it
has created a serious difficulty for me.

Also, note this:
I have an extraordinarily large collection of messages. And I subscribe to
quite a few newsgroups (and news servers), and have an extensive archive of
past saves for those messages too. The bottom line is, I have a large data
base.
Yes, I do my backups.
Oh, and I do not run any virus or spyware programs other than Windows Live
One Care.
My machine is (has been) well behaved, and I do not suspect any memory or
other hardware problems.
I only have problems with WLM.

What must I now do to get WLM to start behaving properly?
Thanks all,

- Stan

Oh oh, even as I composed this mail, WLM spontaneously started using big
CPU. Task Manager now reports WLM at over 80%.
I hope this message will send! And I hope I am able to read any replies.

 

Are you perhaps running Windows Desktop Search? I've seen a number of
reports of problems with that program.

Also in Tools, Options, General, is WLM set to check for messages every
XX minutes? If so, set that for no more often then every 15 minutes and
see if it makes any difference.

 

I also am running Windows Live Mail. It was ok in the beginning but lately,
my machine grinds to almost a complete halt and once I kill the wlm process,
it runs fine.

I likethe application, but this is killing me.

Ralph

 

How much RAM memory does that machine have? Some of the larger
programs tend to go into a heavily paging mode if you're short of memory
for their requirements.

 

I have 1.2gig according to 'system' in control panel

 

I get the same thing. I'm posting this through the online communities
because the newsgroup support is unusable.

If I start up WLM, and hit newsgroups, then my memory consumption counts up
by about 6 meg chunks up to 450+ megs, and then sits there. I have 11
newsgroups loaded. FWIW, I'm running a 3500+ Athlon64 processor against 2
gigs of RAM and 512 megs on a video card.

I also have to disable SETI @ home, which runs in background, to even be
able to close WLM and recover.

Reproducing it is easy in my case, so I'm going to have to wait until
Microsoft fixes it.