Windows 7 Livemail - extremely slow type response

[jpinard]

I've had this problem since a major Windows Live update went through (or something else) months ago, but as I'm trying to catch up on about 400 e-mails and need to type fast it's really causing me a problem.

When I bring up Windows Livemail Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3502.0922), in off-line mode no less, each letter I type takes a substantial amount of time to show up. So the cursor lags way behind and it may take 20 seconds for a paragraph of text to show up when I'm typing fast. This doesn't happen anywhere else, except I might have noticed it on some forums that use flash or java or something.

I've come up blank on Google (as most replies are: spyware and virus's!!)- I'm 99.99% sure my system is clean unless MS Essentials, TrendMicro AV, and Malwarebytes all missed something and still can't detect it. Thanks for the help!

[LMN8R]

One of the changes in 2011 applications is that they use Windows Presentation Foundation for rendering. I believe this means it can use your GPU to render graphics (and also is coincidentally why they dropped XP support for it).

What I've noticed on my slower laptop though is that sometimes if I'm on battery power, the already-weak integrated graphics will perform slower, causing some input lag in applications like those that use GPU acceleration. Zune is another application that does this too.


Could it be that you have some out of date graphics drivers, maybe?

[jpinard]

One of the changes in 2011 applications is that they use Windows Presentation Foundation for rendering. I believe this means it can use your GPU to render graphics (and also is coincidentally why they dropped XP support for it).

What I've noticed on my slower laptop though is that sometimes if I'm on battery power, the already-weak integrated graphics will perform slower, causing some input lag in applications like those that use GPU acceleration. Zune is another application that does this too.

Could it be that you have some out of date graphics drivers, maybe?

Not unless Nvidia messed up their latest 64-bit drivers for the G400 series of video cards. This is on a power desktop too so I don't think it would be video related but that certainly is something I can look at. I'm willing to go down any avenue to figure this out.