arm1940 wrote:I have been looking at the faq's with interest, especially those dealing with speed. Something is definately wrong with my installation. I'm running a P4 2.4 GHz with 2 GB RAM on Win XP SP3 with all updates:
Very similar to my system, you have a half gig more RAM though. What type/speed hard drive do you have? Disk speed looks to be a big factor in the MW loading speed. I'm thinking my stupid AV may be adding to this lag when it checks all the MW files before it lets MW open them.
The new version of MWP takes more than 35 seconds to load, no matter if I load it on boot, exit and reload on the same boot, or even restore from hibernation. Yes, I have a number of accounts, and yes there is a large number of emails on those servers, but to sit and look at a partial header for MWP for more than 35 seconds is just too much.
Your load speed from a fresh start and from Hibernate are about what mine are. My MW restarts once it has been started and exited (and given time to finish exiting which is long after the window is no longer visible) is about 7 seconds. I only have about 30 accounts loaded. I have changed my settings to not check accounts as soon as MW is loaded, that makes getting a better time on just the loading time easier.
I kept my older version of MWP. I decided to run each version of MWP on my machine with the same accounts and same number of emails on the servers.
NEW MWP takes over 35 seconds to come alive from initial load, reload after exit or even from hibernation
OLD MWP takes less than 10 seconds to do any of the above.
This degredation in service coupled with the new annual renewal is causing me to consider asking for a refund also.
Does anyone else have this significant a speed difference with loading MWP?
I'm not happy about the speed issues myself but the load time on resume from hibernate is the only one that really bugs me, the warm restart is fast enough on my system that it isn't a big deal. The account checking speed is a bit of an issue, the actual download speed isn't too bad, if you can use pipelining it may actually be better than the old MW. What seems to slow things down are the spam tools that need to fetch info from an external server (first alert, source of spam) and complicated filters. I got some nice speed improvements from studying up on how the filters worked and the internal filter optimizer, about twice the speed I had when I just hacked them together.
I'm not interested in a refund, I want the resume speed fixed and the tools sped up as much as possible along with the missing features. With that I'll be pretty happy with the new version since it does a far better job of sorting spam/ham than the old version.
- cold start MW after windows is finished booting
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- warm start after exit and wait for the MW processes to finish.
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Have a safe and fun trip!!! 
as very very few, if any, apps are optimized these days to run in as small a memory space as possible and given whatever else you have loaded in the way of apps that are gonna be trying to re-instantiate themselves on restore from hibernation, starting up initially on boot up, during reboots, etc. etc. -- THAT in itself may be your problem. They ALL have to compete for memory all at the same time. But that's just my guess. 
