Why does OneNote always go dead after a minute or so?

[Michael Moser]

Something That REALLY starts to annoy me with OneNote is that it frequently
goes dead for about a minute roughly a minute or two after I started it up.
This usually happens just after I selected or created the page and shortly
after I started writing. At that very moment the application freezes (and
since this is on Vista the window gets "milky" or "hazy" indicating that the
application does not respond). It is then unresponsive for about a minute
and afterwards it becomes alive again and everything is fine and no more
such effects henceforth.

But this blocking really drives me nuts and is also often quite embarrassing
because that's often right after I unpacked and started my tablet to take
notes (which still tends to catch peoples' attention) and now I suddenly
sit there for a minute dribbling with my fingers waiting until this darn
program lets me!

What is causing this? Does this program "phone home" to check for updates or
to validate its license or something of that sort? If so, why can't it do
that in the background???

Any ideas whet might be causing this and how to stop this nuisance?

Michael

 

[YouBetcha]

Mine does the same thing although not consistently right at startup. Mine is
due of disk activity. I tried watching it using one of Mark Russinovich's
tools and it looked like Onenote was doing some housecleaning, with backup
files and the cache. Of course, that program was also slowed down by
OneNote's activity. Plus, it looked like my virus software saw the party and
wanted to play, too. It is just a big mess for a few minutes, you can't do
anything (windows XP).

Are you able to "hibernate" your machine, instead of starting up? I
wonder if playing with the "options" "tools" "optimize" settings would apply
here. Maybe if it optimizes more frequently it will be less invasive each
time? If that is what it is doing?

 

[Michael Moser]

The more I observe this the more I am convinced that this backup or
house cleaning or whatever causes these delays is triggered not by time
but rather by the number of strokes or other activity.
Even if I start OneNote and then let it first sit for a while nothing
happens, but only when I then start to sketch somethings after a couple
of strokes (in my case right now: after 5 characters written) the thing
goes dead!

This is SOOOO annoying!!!

Michael