Comments on: Windows Live Mail: slow, bloated, and not very usable

By: scoffer

scoffer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:53:01 +0000

This is my second blog here. I’m on 24Mbps download, so my speed is not an issue here. I run 6 core AMD 1055T with 8 GB RAM, Win7 64 bit.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: -

Why do I have to end the process tree WLIDSVC.EXE (includes WLDSVCM) 3 times before it actually quits from memory?

Why doesn’t the WLIDSVC.EXE and the WLIDSVCM.EXE close from memory when WL Mail and Messenger is closed.

Why is it so slow to upload a basic small file?

Why is it so slow to download a basic small file?

Why is this program so freeeeeeeeeekin HUUUUUUUGE?

Why is this program so bloated with POXWARE?

Why is this program so overly bloated with useless bells and whistles?

Why oh why does this program make the crapware/spyware/bugware YAHOO look good now.

Why oh why can’t we get optional “OUTS” of some portions of the unnecessarily included crapware.

Why oh why is it mandatory to update this BS every time there is an update if we need to continue using this program.

Are the programmers really a bunch of corporate numbskulls that think bigger is better? YEP!

More on this increasingly unuseable program later.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:08:16 +0000

I upgraded to windows 7 from XP. I wish 100 times over I had never done that. Outlook express which I loved so much for the ease and speed is now gone. It takes over 10 minutes for live mail to open. If I click on most any icon it whites out and takes another 10 minutes to come back. The entire time it Task manager tells me Windows Live Mail is not responding. I go make a cup of coffee and vola.. its back. I am afraid to use it for fear it will freeze with every key stroke. I don’t know what to do. I have a new computer with 8 gig of Ram and a terabyte hard drive. everything screams. It is a very nice fast CPU….. until you touch live mail. It is totally frustrating and unusable. How do I find another email program that I can switch to and not loose all my email history that goes back several years.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:18:00 +0000

We support multiple ‘regular’ users, which don’t always clean up their mail or close their programs properly. It’s been raining WLM complaints since the day we’ve introduced it.

For us WLM is all of the following (any version of it):
- Slow to start up
- Slow handling anything more than 10 mails in the inbox.
- Slow to handle attachments
- Unstable, likes to crash randomly
- Has a default 5 minute first startup when you launch it, after that, you can actually click and select stuff in it.
- An absolute pain in the…neck…

Frankly anti-virus developers should quarantie and delete WLM automatically like any other malicious coding.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:38:55 +0000

I don’t use Live Mail but and trying to help my wife out of a bind. How do you switch to the basic mode?

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:29:36 +0000

I don’t care for all the fancy stuff. I want to be able to open my mail, read it and process it without waiing 2 or 3 minutes between functions!
I still have dial-up access at home (in the sticks) and I pretty much avoid trying to even sign on to hotmail while there. At my workplace we have fiberoptic connection and hotmail is so slow there I only open it when absoutly necessary and if I have a spare 15 – 20 minutes (almost never. PLEASE GET THIS ADDRESSED!!

By: mike

mike — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:50:35 +0000

Its not slow for me… hah ms haters…

By: RG

RG — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:55:31 +0000

Good god MS, fix this thing, it’s not live, it’s dead. Slow and disfuntional. Dont wait another 2 years or whatever speed is what we want. Take the bells & whistles and give’m back to Santa. Today!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:14:40 +0000

Please boycott Windows Live or hotmail. ITS WAY TOO SLOW! Please switch to Gmail.

Down with Windows Live™
Down with Hotmail
Anti-Windows Live™
Anti-Hotmail

They are going from bad to worst. I urged everyone to migrate to using Gmail.

By: Scoffer

Scoffer — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:14:59 +0000

OOPS, Bottom left “Loading..” zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By: Scoffer

Scoffer — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:10:57 +0000

ADS. if they stopped the ads and trackers, it would be faster. I tested it with AdMuncher on, and off. If you block the ads, it just keeps thinking it has to keep loading them and you never get to open your mail. I turned off AdMuncher and it worked reasonably, but my other adware and spyware program detected multiple 127.0.0.1 loops from this site. Nearly as bad as YAHOO the way they sneakily put trackers, loggers and other unscrupulous “BadWare” in a program and tell you it is “Clean”.

Anyway. It’s been over 15 mins now with ad blocker on and mail screen is still trying to load (that bar on the bottom right).