Modifying a pages Refresh Rate

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I read the below comment by poster VanguardLH in internetexplorer.general
newsgroup.

"I've had 72 tabs open but ran out of memory (they weren't text-only pages)
before IE starting getting overly slow probably due to excessive paging.
However, you can hit web pages that deliberately attempt to consume your CPU
and bandwidth by doing refreshes at very short intervals or by constantly
downloading streams of new content (even if YOU don't see a change in the
page because the new content looks just like the old content). Even with
just a couple tabs open, having visited one of these rude busy-making pages
can make opening other tabs very slow or using the other tabs for already
opened pages."

Concerning - "by doing refreshes at very short intervals"

Question: I use Outlook Express 6, to read newsgroups, can the message
refresh rate be extended or shortened as desired, if so how?

Thank you

"WMB" wrote in message
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Windows XP(Home) SP3, OE6, IE8; Plenty of RAM & HHD space. Continuous
checks for Virus/Malware
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kilobyte secondary memory cache, P4X266-8233, Enclosure Type: Desktop V2
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Drives (NTFS), 1.5 GB Ram, Upgraded PSU, Belarc Advisor, Multimedia -
lists, MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device - Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R)
Audio Controller - Standard Game Port. Circuit Board: P4X266-8233, Bus
Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
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I read the below comment by poster VanguardLH in
internetexplorer.general newsgroup.

"I've had 72 tabs open but ran out of memory (they weren't text-only
pages) before IE starting getting overly slow probably due to excessive
paging. However, you can hit web pages that deliberately attempt to
consume your CPU and bandwidth by doing refreshes at very short
intervals or by constantly downloading streams of new content (even if
YOU don't see a change in the page because the new content looks just
like the old content). Even with just a couple tabs open, having
visited one of these rude busy-making pages can make opening other tabs
very slow or using the other tabs for already opened pages."

Concerning - "by doing refreshes at very short intervals"

Question: I use Outlook Express 6, to read newsgroups, can the message
refresh rate be extended or shortened as desired, if so how?

Thank you



Are you checking for new news messages when OE polls for new messages?
(Tools | Accounts | News | Properties | General Tab, with Get XXX headers
ay a time unchecked?). The setting has to be the same for News and Mail,
unless you set up a new identity and have one ID for each.

I normally recommend checking for mail no less that ten minutes, but you
can go lower if you don't get a lot of messages and they are not of
considerable size. If a download doesn't complete before the next check,
it will start over and you will end up with multiple messages, but not all
of them.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

"WMB" wrote in message
...
Windows XP(Home) SP3, OE6, IE8; Plenty of RAM & HHD space. Continuous
checks for Virus/Malware
1.4Ghz, VIA Technologies, Inc. 8 kilobyte primary memory cache, 256
kilobyte secondary memory cache, P4X266-8233, Enclosure Type: Desktop V2
Premier, Windows XP (Home) SP3, 2 Calvary External USB 400/500 GB Hard
Drives (NTFS), 1.5 GB Ram, Upgraded PSU, Belarc Advisor, Multimedia -
lists, MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device - Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R)
Audio Controller - Standard Game Port. Circuit Board: P4X266-8233, Bus
Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
09/05/2001, Virus/Malware Protection - Windows Live One Care, MS Windows
Malicious SW
Removal Tool, SUPERAntiSpyware, HiJackThis, Malwarebyte Anti-Malware,
Registry Mechanic 8.0.0.900, CCleaner, and Alvira AntiVir Personal.

I read the below comment by poster VanguardLH in internetexplorer.general
newsgroup.

"I've had 72 tabs open but ran out of memory (they weren't text-only
pages) before IE starting getting overly slow probably due to excessive
paging. However, you can hit web pages that deliberately attempt to
consume your CPU and bandwidth by doing refreshes at very short intervals
or by constantly downloading streams of new content (even if YOU don't see
a change in the page because the new content looks just like the old
content). Even with just a couple tabs open, having visited one of these
rude busy-making pages can make opening other tabs very slow or using the
other tabs for already opened pages."

Concerning - "by doing refreshes at very short intervals"

Question: I use Outlook Express 6, to read newsgroups, can the message
refresh rate be extended or shortened as desired, if so how?


You can hit F5 to refresh the group you are in, or click out and then click
back in, anytime you want.

"Jeff Strickland" wrote in message
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"WMB" wrote in message
...
Windows XP(Home) SP3, OE6, IE8; Plenty of RAM & HHD space. Continuous
checks for Virus/Malware
1.4Ghz, VIA Technologies, Inc. 8 kilobyte primary memory cache, 256
kilobyte secondary memory cache, P4X266-8233, Enclosure Type: Desktop V2
Premier, Windows XP (Home) SP3, 2 Calvary External USB 400/500 GB Hard
Drives (NTFS), 1.5 GB Ram, Upgraded PSU, Belarc Advisor, Multimedia -
lists, MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device - Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R)
Audio Controller - Standard Game Port. Circuit Board: P4X266-8233, Bus
Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
09/05/2001, Virus/Malware Protection - Windows Live One Care, MS Windows
Malicious SW
Removal Tool, SUPERAntiSpyware, HiJackThis, Malwarebyte Anti-Malware,
Registry Mechanic 8.0.0.900, CCleaner, and Alvira AntiVir Personal.

I read the below comment by poster VanguardLH in internetexplorer.general
newsgroup.

"I've had 72 tabs open but ran out of memory (they weren't text-only
pages) before IE starting getting overly slow probably due to excessive
paging. However, you can hit web pages that deliberately attempt to
consume your CPU and bandwidth by doing refreshes at very short intervals
or by constantly downloading streams of new content (even if YOU don't
see a change in the page because the new content looks just like the old
content). Even with just a couple tabs open, having visited one of these
rude busy-making pages can make opening other tabs very slow or using the
other tabs for already opened pages."

Concerning - "by doing refreshes at very short intervals"

Question: I use Outlook Express 6, to read newsgroups, can the message
refresh rate be extended or shortened as desired, if so how?


You can hit F5 to refresh the group you are in, or click out and then
click back in, anytime you want.

My post may not have been as clear as i intended, sorry. I'll give a
senario: I have opened a newsgroup and I am reading a posted message and
its accompanying replies. The accompanying replies may contain info that i
wish to make note of, an if its a long post, when the message refreshes it
jumps back to the beginning of the message and you must scrowl back down
to the point where you were reading. I was wondering if the interval of
the refresh rate was adjustable?

"WMB" wrote in message
...

"Jeff Strickland" wrote in message
...

"WMB" wrote in message
...
Windows XP(Home) SP3, OE6, IE8; Plenty of RAM & HHD space. Continuous
checks for Virus/Malware
1.4Ghz, VIA Technologies, Inc. 8 kilobyte primary memory cache, 256
kilobyte secondary memory cache, P4X266-8233, Enclosure Type: Desktop
V2 Premier, Windows XP (Home) SP3, 2 Calvary External USB 400/500 GB
Hard Drives (NTFS), 1.5 GB Ram, Upgraded PSU, Belarc Advisor,
Multimedia - lists, MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device - Realtek AC'97
Audio for VIA (R) Audio Controller - Standard Game Port. Circuit
Board: P4X266-8233, Bus Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Award Software
International, Inc. 6.00 PG 09/05/2001, Virus/Malware Protection -
Windows Live One Care, MS Windows Malicious SW
Removal Tool, SUPERAntiSpyware, HiJackThis, Malwarebyte Anti-Malware,
Registry Mechanic 8.0.0.900, CCleaner, and Alvira AntiVir Personal.

I read the below comment by poster VanguardLH in
internetexplorer.general newsgroup.

"I've had 72 tabs open but ran out of memory (they weren't text-only
pages) before IE starting getting overly slow probably due to
excessive paging. However, you can hit web pages that deliberately
attempt to consume your CPU and bandwidth by doing refreshes at very
short intervals or by constantly downloading streams of new content
(even if YOU don't see a change in the page because the new content
looks just like the old content). Even with just a couple tabs open,
having visited one of these rude busy-making pages can make opening
other tabs very slow or using the other tabs for already opened
pages."

Concerning - "by doing refreshes at very short intervals"

Question: I use Outlook Express 6, to read newsgroups, can the message
refresh rate be extended or shortened as desired, if so how?


You can hit F5 to refresh the group you are in, or click out and then
click back in, anytime you want.

My post may not have been as clear as i intended, sorry. I'll give a
senario: I have opened a newsgroup and I am reading a posted message
and its accompanying replies. The accompanying replies may contain info
that i wish to make note of, an if its a long post, when the message
refreshes it jumps back to the beginning of the message and you must
scrowl back down to the point where you were reading. I was wondering
if the interval of the refresh rate was adjustable?



It is refreshing when OE polls for new messages because you have "Include
this account......" checked in Tools | Accounts | News.

What is happening is normal behavior for OE. The easiest work-around is to
work offline when reading a long post. Just add the Offline button to the
OE Toolbar.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

WMB wrote:

My post may not have been as clear as i intended, sorry. I'll give a
senario: I have opened a newsgroup and I am reading a posted message and
its accompanying replies. The accompanying replies may contain info that i
wish to make note of, an if its a long post, when the message refreshes it
jumps back to the beginning of the message and you must scrowl back down
to the point where you were reading. I was wondering if the interval of
the refresh rate was adjustable?

You configured the news account to be included in the polling interval that
you also configured in OE. You could disable that news account from being
included in the configured polling interval but then you will have to do the
refreshes yourself.

OE has a long-time behavior of jumping back to the top when polling for new
messages when you have scrolled down in a post. You're stuck with that
behavior in OE. It's one of the reasons why I trialed other newsreaders.

"WMB" wrote in message
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(incorrect quote level due to poster quoting new material. left as is.)

My post may not have been as clear as i intended, sorry. I'll give a
senario: I have opened a newsgroup and I am reading a posted message and
its accompanying replies. The accompanying replies may contain info that
i wish to make note of, an if its a long post, when the message refreshes
it jumps back to the beginning of the message and you must scrowl back
down to the point where you were reading. I was wondering if the interval
of the refresh rate was adjustable?


In addition to the previous comments why not just open the message in its
own window? (Ctrl-o)

BTW I no longer subscribe to OE NG; I saw this in IE.General. Not sure
why it was cross-posted there? ; }


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
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"WMB" wrote in message
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(incorrect quote level due to poster quoting new material. left as is.)

My post may not have been as clear as i intended, sorry. I'll give a
senario: I have opened a newsgroup and I am reading a posted message and
its accompanying replies. The accompanying replies may contain info that
i wish to make note of, an if its a long post, when the message
refreshes
it jumps back to the beginning of the message and you must scrowl back
down to the point where you were reading. I was wondering if the
interval
of the refresh rate was adjustable?


In addition to the previous comments why not just open the message in its
own window? (Ctrl-o)

BTW I no longer subscribe to OE NG; I saw this in IE.General. Not sure
why it was cross-posted there? ; }


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
---

Thanks to all who were kind enough to answer. I did check under my
Accounts, msnews properties and found my "server timeouts" settings were set
to to the short end at 30sec. I changed them to the long side, 5min. Lets
see what type of change, if any, this makes. Thanks again for the help.

WMB wrote:

Thanks to all who were kind enough to answer. I did check under my
Accounts, msnews properties and found my "server timeouts" settings were
set to to the short end at 30sec. I changed them to the long side, 5min.
Lets see what type of change, if any, this makes.

That is not the *poll* interval which is not at all hard to find. Just go
look at the options. It's right on the FIRST tab that is shown to you. Now
slap your forehead.

"WMB" wrote in message
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"Jeff Strickland" wrote in message
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"WMB" wrote in message
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Windows XP(Home) SP3, OE6, IE8; Plenty of RAM & HHD space. Continuous
checks for Virus/Malware
1.4Ghz, VIA Technologies, Inc. 8 kilobyte primary memory cache, 256
kilobyte secondary memory cache, P4X266-8233, Enclosure Type: Desktop V2
Premier, Windows XP (Home) SP3, 2 Calvary External USB 400/500 GB Hard
Drives (NTFS), 1.5 GB Ram, Upgraded PSU, Belarc Advisor, Multimedia -
lists, MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device - Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R)
Audio Controller - Standard Game Port. Circuit Board: P4X266-8233, Bus
Clock: 100 megahertz, BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG
09/05/2001, Virus/Malware Protection - Windows Live One Care, MS Windows
Malicious SW
Removal Tool, SUPERAntiSpyware, HiJackThis, Malwarebyte Anti-Malware,
Registry Mechanic 8.0.0.900, CCleaner, and Alvira AntiVir Personal.

I read the below comment by poster VanguardLH in
internetexplorer.general newsgroup.

"I've had 72 tabs open but ran out of memory (they weren't text-only
pages) before IE starting getting overly slow probably due to excessive
paging. However, you can hit web pages that deliberately attempt to
consume your CPU and bandwidth by doing refreshes at very short
intervals or by constantly downloading streams of new content (even if
YOU don't see a change in the page because the new content looks just
like the old content). Even with just a couple tabs open, having
visited one of these rude busy-making pages can make opening other tabs
very slow or using the other tabs for already opened pages."

Concerning - "by doing refreshes at very short intervals"

Question: I use Outlook Express 6, to read newsgroups, can the message
refresh rate be extended or shortened as desired, if so how?


You can hit F5 to refresh the group you are in, or click out and then
click back in, anytime you want.

My post may not have been as clear as i intended, sorry. I'll give a
senario: I have opened a newsgroup and I am reading a posted message and
its accompanying replies. The accompanying replies may contain info that
i wish to make note of, an if its a long post, when the message refreshes
it jumps back to the beginning of the message and you must scrowl back
down to the point where you were reading. I was wondering if the interval
of the refresh rate was adjustable?




Yes. And your messages are screwed up because it looks like your Reply is
part of my Reply because of the way the characters are inserted.

While you read a post, the fact that your reader goes out to get more
messages should not disturbe the post you are reading, but you can click
TOOLSOPTIONS, and in the Send and Receive Messages section, increase the
time between checking for new messages. Longer delays are usually better. I
have my refresh rate set to 30 minutes. If I want to check sooner, I simply
click on the Send/Receive button.