Anyone with XP having troubles with Hotmail running really slow?

[bullion416]

I have Windows XP Pro and have all the latest updates. For the past month or so when ever I sign on to my hotmail account, it freezes up for a little bit before it continues to load. It does each time I clcik on something in my hotmail account. Any ideas?

 

[Adul]

clear out your cache.

 

[BuckNaked]

I had this problem when I disabled Messenger... Hotmail would freeze and then load slowly... I had to re-enable Messenger to use Hotmail effectively...

Dave

 

[Tetsuo316]

Buck, to fix that you do not have to reenable messenger. all you have to do is chane the name of your messenger folder to something like "messenger no start" and that ought to do it.

 

[bullion416]

How exactly do you change the name of your messenger folder? I personlly completely uninstalled MSN Messenger. I tried clearing my cache and I still get the same problem. Any other advice?

 

[johnlog]

MS Hotmail downloads a lot of junk mail automatically every time you log on. Check your junk mail folder and other mail folders and delete all unnecessary notes. Once you get several hundred junk notes and other notes that will slow down Hotmail.

Because of all the mail I did not want in Hotmail I no longer use it even though it is still installed.

In the Junk Mail folder there should be a button you can click on and delete all those notes with one click.

 

[Panther505]

Link to the Register

I had the same problem with Hotmail until I used the script for the Reg. I think that the problem is that Messenger is still registered and Hotmail calls the dll. The hang is what you get until the dll call times out.

 

[bullion416]

How do you use the script for the Reg? I am still having problems with hotmail hanging (i have msn messenger uninstalled, so should I reinstall it and just disable it?).

 

[Panther505]

Download it and then unzip it. From there open a command (cmd) window and run the batch file. I think that the most important thing that it does it to unregister some stuff that the uninstall script for Messenger leave installed(or registered).