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Old 05-05-2007, 01:16 PM
invader@nospamforme.com
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Re: vista desktop search and windows mail search times

Anybody???? I'd really hoped these slow times were something misconfigured on
my end... Am I to assume by the lack of response that Vista desktop search
and windows mail search are this slow for everyone????
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> I'm trying to get a handle on searching in vista. My system is a relatively
> decent performer (Core 2 Duo E6300, 2 GB ram, hardware raid, ...)
>
> Here are some numbers.
>
> Desktop Search for "control":
> about 3-5 seconds an obvious things like control panel show up
> about 10-15 seconds and everything has shown up (emails, etc)
>
> Open "Windows Mail":
> non-responsive for approximately 30-60 seconds when opened. I have no
> idea
> what it's doing during this time period.
>
> Searching my inbox:
> my inbox has ~ 1500 message
> Search 'From' for a nonexistent string: 30-60 seconds
> Search 'Message' for a nonexistent string: 5 minutes
> Winmail.exe and Svchost.exe are hogging CPU when searching, causing
> sluggish performance on all processes.
>
> Replying to an email message:
> 5-30 seconds from clicking 'reply' to opening of reply dialog.
> svchost.exe and winmail.exe are again bogging down the pc.
>
> The indexer settings page claims ~ 180,000 items are in the indexing
> database. Most of these I suspect are deleted emails.
>
> Are other people getting similar performance? I certainly hope there's
> something wrong with my installation and Vista doesn't really perform this
> bad in the average case. This performance is horrible.
>
>
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Old 05-05-2007, 01:16 PM