microsoft mail freezing

I submitted a problem report on this earlier today, but wanted to relay in case others were experiencing the same thing.
When I am in the Microsoft Mail program and goto tools/options and click the advanced tab the mail program freezes and I have to kill it using task manager.
-- Nickyrock ------------------------------------- Microsoft Vista Beta 2 build 5384 Power Up Digital 2528 400 watt PS Mach Speed Matrix P4M800 Via Socket 478 Intel Celeron D 340 2.93Ghz 256K Cache 533MHz FSB PNY 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Visiontek Xtasy 9600XT (RADEON) 128MB DDR AGP 8X Graphics Creative Sound Blaster PCI 512 Sound ATI TV Wonder Elite (THEATERT 550 PRO) TV/Capture Microsoft Windows XP MCE IR Sensor & Remote Maxtor 120gb (system) & 300gb ATA 133mb BenQ 16/40x DVD/CD Burner DF/DL & Matshita CR-594 CD-Rom

Nicky--
I haven't seen this any build, and it may be a unique bug, but having reported it, in the meantime see if you can defeat this behavior by defragging often, stopping services you don't need, killing processes listed on the Task Man process tab you don't need-- and end services at services.msc in run box that you don't need. Google them or possibly find a site that has them explained--once again MSFT failed to build this into Task Manager or Services.msc. I'd run 2-3 Spyware scanners regular, Defender that comes with Vista, Adaware, and Spybot. I witheld mentioning SFC one of my favorites in Win XP because of the unacceptable and ridiculous state it's in ten months into the Beta.
Many of the steps I'd follow are listed in this link; it hasn't been updated to include some of the new services and processes in Vista but soon will be. The link on Windows no boots will be updated to include Win RE, BCDEDIT and other fixes for Windows when and if MSFT every publishes adequate info on them or books on Vista contain enough info--whichever happens first--most probably the latter. I would caution you that the SFC delivered thus far in Beta 2 is an unstable and potentially destructive utility, not at all reliable as it is in Win XP. So far MSFT has said next to nothing except chance mentions that it should be used only with a verifyonly switch as sfc.exe/verifyonly which scans for defective files but does not fix them.
Speed and Unfreeze PC and Clean Windows; Remove Spyware http://tinyurl.com/znqxh
I wonder how many people associated on the Vista beta would have their broken car checked out by an auto repair and hvae significant problems that need fixing and leave without fixing the car? That's the SFC they've given you because for many users running sfc /scannow trashes the Vista registry and gives you a no boot Vista in need of Windows RE. It is a good way to set up a test scenario for Win RE though.
Additionally try making a new profile and see if the Windows Mail in that profile does the same thing. If it does, that indicates this is more systemic on your box than a particular Win Mail problem.
Also you can try these--in case you do have a confined problem specific to Win Mail:
1) The default path for the message store is C:\Users\{user account}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail
Try moving (not deleting) all files out of that folder and then start Windows Mail. It should create a new empty store folder.
2) In regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail and remove "\WindowsMail.MSMessageStore" from the Store Root Value, so it looks something like:
S:\Data\WindowsMail
Not all Vista machines will have that value--and why I'm not sure.
Good luck,
CH


Good luck,
CH
"Nickyrock" wrote in message

I submitted a problem report on this earlier today, but wanted to relay in case others were experiencing the same thing.
When I am in the Microsoft Mail program and goto tools/options and click the advanced tab the mail program freezes and I have to kill it using task manager.
-- Nickyrock ------------------------------------- Microsoft Vista Beta 2 build 5384 Power Up Digital 2528 400 watt PS Mach Speed Matrix P4M800 Via Socket 478 Intel Celeron D 340 2.93Ghz 256K Cache 533MHz FSB PNY 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Visiontek Xtasy 9600XT (RADEON) 128MB DDR AGP 8X Graphics Creative Sound Blaster PCI 512 Sound ATI TV Wonder Elite (THEATERT 550 PRO) TV/Capture Microsoft Windows XP MCE IR Sensor & Remote Maxtor 120gb (system) & 300gb ATA 133mb BenQ 16/40x DVD/CD Burner DF/DL & Matshita CR-594 CD-Rom