NS Mail Slow under W2000

I am running NS7 under W2000 on a PIII 800 with 256MB of RAM. I recently upgraded from NS4.7. I use NS for mail not browsing, prefering IE or Opera.

I find NS7 mail to be terribly slow as compared with 4.7. Furthermore, unless I reboot quite frequently, it gets slower and slower, until I cannot avoid rebooting. This never happened with 4.7. Anyone lese with the same problem? Any advice as to remedies?

Also, NS 7 seems no longer to support keyboard shortcuts for moving mail messages between folders. Am I missing something?

Seb

 

Welcome to the Forum, Seb!

Hi Seb,

With your system spec's you should rock and roll with Netscape 7.0! I have basically the same spec's, a little more RAM, and experience none of the problems that you describe. Just a wild guess, as I'm no Windows Guru, but sounds like one or more of your programs is eating your system resources. Have you run Resource Meter to check this out? Right now I have Opera 6.05, (8 windows) and Netscape 7.0 (11 windows) plus 7.0 Mail & Newsgroups open, with resources at 67%. Mail & especially NG's are a little slower in 7.0, as compared to 4.79.

For the Netscape Keyboard Shortcuts, click on Help or F1 (Help and Support Center). Click on Contents|Netscape Keyboard Shortcuts. There aren't as many as I would like to see. Hopefully this will improve with future updates.

Ramona

 

Thanks for the quick response.
NS is using up >30MB of memory, which seems rather a lot. Two other programmes are each using about 10MB, everything else much less.
I do not know what is normal for overall memory useage, nor what the figures mean, but at present they are:

MEM usage
160MB

Physical memory
Total 260 MB
Available 77 MB
System Cache 117MB

Kernel Memory
Total 42MB
Paged 36MB
nonpages 5.5MB

Seb

 

Hi seb,

This is a web site that I had bookmarked, as it is a fairly simple explanation of the Resource Meter readings:
Using Windows Resource Meter.

When you run out of resources, as you describe, it must be another resource intensive program, in addition to Netscape 7.0. I personally have not experienced the slow down that you describe with Netscape 7.0. Hopefully others will give you their experience.

Ramona