Windows live mail 2011 "updating your changes" constantly... grrr

Not loving the new situation here.
WLM 2011 is dragging its feet like a reluctant child! I have one hotmail account and one gmail account set up. When I click on a different folder to 'see' what's inside that mailbox, a little window pops up in centre screen saying ' Updating your changes' and 'to stop updating your email account, click cancel'.

My laptop is a pretty spec'd out gaming notebook from ASUS (G50V) so no RAM issues or general slowness ever normally occurs. It is definitely WLM. I have even disabled the extra level of virus scanning by AVG free edition to see if it was a conflict there. Nope.

2 Questions - 1> How do I troubleshoot this? 2> Is this worth troubleshooting or should I just move to thunderbird or another simple email client. I have Office 2007 (which comes with the full Outlook) but I disliked this even more than the current version (at the time) of WLM, so have uninstalled it. Too much stuff on the screen - I want it simple and clean. Lookswise, WLM is just fine! But damn.... SOOOOO slow.

Help and any clever sarcasm welcome

cool. Ok then, thunderbird it is. Ta

I can say that Thunderbird is great so far. I didn't like the look of the program so much but there are various themes you can download, like with firefox. I now have the 'leopard' theme (based on mac OS leopard) and it looks great.

So.. recommended.

alexgirth said:

Not loving the new situation here.
WLM 2011 is dragging its feet like a reluctant child!

See my article on reverting back to Windows Live Essentials 2009/2010. Wonderful to be able have that streamlined look and fast response again!

Revert to Windows Live Essentials 2009!

richc46 said:

...See my article on reverting back to Windows Live Essentials 2009/2010...

Revert to Windows Live Essentials 2009!

I'm also using that version. But you have to switch back to WLE 2009/2010 as well (no mixing programs from each suite of programs). Also, you won't be able to use WLMessenger since that is a mandatory 2011 upgrade.

Did anyone figure out a fix for the "updating your changes" in WLM? The solutions in this thread are to get a completely different program or revert back to the old version. Is there no setting or config option to stop this updating?

fishstix said:

...Is there no setting or config option to stop this updating?

Have you tried a repair of Windows Live Essentials via Programs and Features? It should repair all installed components of Live Essentials, including Mail.