My normal email program is via MSN Explorer. However somewhere in the past I figured out that I could get some of my scanners and printers to direct email if I used Windows Live Mail, whereas they wouldn't connect or recognize my MSN email program. Ditto for some software that sent emails out of their internal program. Apparently it has something to do with what the email program is based on, computer or remote server I guess, and forgive me if I got totally lost in that department years ago when we left dial-up.
My frustration for the last year or so that Windows Live Mail has actually worked to process outbound emails out of software programs, is that it literally takes several minutes to get up and running. In the meantime I cannot do anything else; the Windows Live Mail loading pop-up window stays center-screen and Esc nor anything else stops or hides it. I sit and wait for from 1 to 3 minutes for it to actually bring up the WLM screen so I can begin creating the email. No other program on my Vista sp2 computer takes anywhere near that long to get booted up.
Any idea what's bogging down the start of WLM? Why would it take so long to gather its necessary ingredients off the hard drive and get going? MSN Explorer and Internet Explorer email begin as soon as I hit their shortcuts.