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

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).

By: big wank

big wank — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:03:53 +0000

YES IT IS PURE CRAP!!!!
slower than postal mail, i might as well buy a roll of stamps!
WHY do they feel they must constantly change things? hotmail used to work, now this stupid hunk of garbage called windows live mail has made me start searching for something that i can compose & send an email in under 15 minutes!!
it also doesnt work with outlook express!!
who’s faster?
who should i switch to?

By: Charles King

Charles King — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:44:36 +0000

Sigh of Relief!!

ITS not the CPU!

Believe me I just crawled out from under my desk with a can of Super Duster in my hand. I was actually contemplating buying a new computer, thinking I’d made too many changes to my Old Faithful Compaq Upgrade or something. I thought the CPU was working so hard (100% most of the time) on IExplorer because it was slowly developing a heat problem or something like that.

I just found this site by googling “Windows Live Slow” out of curiosity. I’ve actually resorted to using an old MSN8 program I keep on my HD for dialup as a backup in case Comcast lets me down again, as it does from time to time. I love that old Hotmail drop down which lets me access all of my mail at one time instead of having to go through page after page.

SPEED IS WHAT I NEED, when I play Wall Street in real time. I just lost a thousand dollars, (made only 400 instead of 1400) because I was waiting for this damned program to load, so I could check some financial news, so I missed the Bernanke bail-out, for a long while.

BTW before I go, could I still have a CPU problem since my CPU is still going 100% on iexplore as I write? Is that normal? Also, my HD is almost maxed out,so could that cause the CPU to work harder than usual? Anyone?

By: tenzing sherpa

tenzing sherpa — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:03:58 +0000

I really hate this windows live hotmail…
Its damn slow al though I have 256Kbps connection..even its not letting me to go to my previous changes..I dunno why this live hotmail is necessary…It sucks…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:58:52 +0000

I only like that you can click the first mail and shift click the last and select all the email in between. I have been using live beta just cause its easy to delete junk. I have experienced the opening a mail when i just wanted to click the box as well.

By: Peter Chng

Peter Chng — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:11:07 +0000

Thanks for the tip - selecting multiple messages is now easier! However, while holding CTRL restores “normal” functionality to the checkboxes, I don’t think this should have been required.

By: Alnegator

Alnegator — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:21:34 +0000

If you hold ctrl you can select multiple boxes

By: Rajib Chakraborty

Rajib Chakraborty — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:56:53 +0000

WLM is best among all the webmails if you consider only the look and feel of it. otherwise it’s quite slow. Other things I have noticed that if somebody gets a mail with 10-15 small attachments then while forwarding that mail all the attachements arranged in a vertical way on the top of the compose section and there remains no space for futher writing. This is bug.

By: Peter Chng

Peter Chng — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:17:10 +0000

The regular version of Windows Live Mail really is too slow and bloated for me - I agree. You also have a very good point about developers adding “too many” features, resulting in a huge feature set, 99% of which is never really used by the majority because it’s not practical.

Whenever I use Windows Live Mail, it’s always in “Basic” mode, which is actually usable.