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!Help: Win XP SP2 opening MSN Hotmail is slow (Misery loves company)
Hi Rick,
I read your message about this issue and here's some details and my thoughts. 1- I didn't use the sp2 before. Like a lot of people, I was waiting. But one day, MSN/Hotmail started to crash my IE and all... So I thought maybe it was time to go the sp2 way. 2- After installing sp2 succesfully (and fixing the Ethernet card issue), after setting the new Security options, I tried loading my Hotmail. 3- The problem, as my guts tell me, is that sp2 and MSN decided to force users into something in the background, EG installing some kind of thing that is buggy, like trying to integrate the Messenger to the Hotmail account in IE. The resulting problem is that, when accessing the MSN page the first time during a session, the page loads very, very slowly. Some people think it doesn't load, but it's loading alright. After a painful 40 seconds, the page finally is available, and it's easier to use the service from there (until next session). 4- This problem seems to happen to more and more users. I don't think it's just a random issue, but something to do with IE, the Messenger and SP2 in particular. Other Web pages with a login will load normally--it seems it's only with Hotmail. I am assuming this issue will come to Microsoft's ears sooner or later (as some Hotmail users will be in panic of not being able to access their email through IE), and that they'll make a patch for fixing it or what not... :-/ Here's a few more symptoms people in the usenet groups are reporting: A) Robie13 (the one you replied to) says: "I recently installed SP2 and now I am unable to access my hotmail accounts or my MSN home page. I am not running any other firewall software, cookies are enabled, pop-ups are not blocked, they've been added to my "sites" (allow everything), I tried reducing my security level, etc. I had no problems prior to SP2. Now, all I get is a white (blank) page and the taskbar says the page has finished loading. I have not problem accessing these sites on my computer at work (no SP2 installed)." B) Racket says: "For the past several days my msn messenger email pages take "forever" to load(like when I want to view individual emails, forward, delete, new message,etc). All other pages outside hotmail work just fine." C) Webbie wrote: "Everything was running fine with SP1 Outlook 2002 and then yesterday, I loaded SP2 and everything went wacky! For one thing, it wouldn't load my hotmail account" D) a user commenting: "Hard to imagine an MS product unable to interface with MSN Hotmail.....do they even communicate anymore? |
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!Help: Win XP SP2 opening MSN Hotmail is slow (Misery loves compan
I, too, have been having slow loading pages with hotmail, especially with the
junk mail page. But I've had SP2 on my computer for a while. My problems started once they increased the free account size. I don't know if that is the problem but everything was fine until the changes hotmail made. "Wonderous" wrote: Hi Rick, I read your message about this issue and here's some details and my thoughts. 1- I didn't use the sp2 before. Like a lot of people, I was waiting. But one day, MSN/Hotmail started to crash my IE and all... So I thought maybe it was time to go the sp2 way. 2- After installing sp2 succesfully (and fixing the Ethernet card issue), after setting the new Security options, I tried loading my Hotmail. 3- The problem, as my guts tell me, is that sp2 and MSN decided to force users into something in the background, EG installing some kind of thing that is buggy, like trying to integrate the Messenger to the Hotmail account in IE. The resulting problem is that, when accessing the MSN page the first time during a session, the page loads very, very slowly. Some people think it doesn't load, but it's loading alright. After a painful 40 seconds, the page finally is available, and it's easier to use the service from there (until next session). 4- This problem seems to happen to more and more users. I don't think it's just a random issue, but something to do with IE, the Messenger and SP2 in particular. Other Web pages with a login will load normally--it seems it's only with Hotmail. I am assuming this issue will come to Microsoft's ears sooner or later (as some Hotmail users will be in panic of not being able to access their email through IE), and that they'll make a patch for fixing it or what not... :-/ Here's a few more symptoms people in the usenet groups are reporting: A) Robie13 (the one you replied to) says: "I recently installed SP2 and now I am unable to access my hotmail accounts or my MSN home page. I am not running any other firewall software, cookies are enabled, pop-ups are not blocked, they've been added to my "sites" (allow everything), I tried reducing my security level, etc. I had no problems prior to SP2. Now, all I get is a white (blank) page and the taskbar says the page has finished loading. I have not problem accessing these sites on my computer at work (no SP2 installed)." B) Racket says: "For the past several days my msn messenger email pages take "forever" to load(like when I want to view individual emails, forward, delete, new message,etc). All other pages outside hotmail work just fine." C) Webbie wrote: "Everything was running fine with SP1 Outlook 2002 and then yesterday, I loaded SP2 and everything went wacky! For one thing, it wouldn't load my hotmail account" D) a user commenting: "Hard to imagine an MS product unable to interface with MSN Hotmail.....do they even communicate anymore? |
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!Help: Win XP SP2 opening MSN Hotmail is slow (Misery loves compan
Exactly, it's not so much the SP2 rather than the Hotmail page that is
buggy. It started to be buggy before I add SP2. It's been a few days and MSN has not done anything... On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:59:03 -0800, alecquaid wrote: I, too, have been having slow loading pages with hotmail, especially with the junk mail page. But I've had SP2 on my computer for a while. My problems started once they increased the free account size. I don't know if that is the problem but everything was fine until the changes hotmail made. |
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!Help: Win XP SP2 opening MSN Hotmail is slow (Misery loves compan
I had the same problem, uninstalled messenger 6.2 and now hotmail responds
like it should. Hope they fix this! As a side note, I still get an "Object not found" error in the lower left corner. But I can live with that! Ed "Wonderous" wrote in message ... Exactly, it's not so much the SP2 rather than the Hotmail page that is buggy. It started to be buggy before I add SP2. It's been a few days and MSN has not done anything... On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:59:03 -0800, alecquaid wrote: I, too, have been having slow loading pages with hotmail, especially with the junk mail page. But I've had SP2 on my computer for a while. My problems started once they increased the free account size. I don't know if that is the problem but everything was fine until the changes hotmail made. |
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