Read this answer in context □ 1 All Replies (4) This does disable the Ctrl+K search option, but it can make thing run faster. I did have to manually delete the 100,000 or so copies of email with the extension wdseml that were let behind when I turned it off.įinally you can disable the Global search and indexer in Thunderbird options. That should make things faster and I never figured out what having windows search looking for mail was all about anyway. Next disable the use of the option to allow windows to search your mail. Nothing like that brain dead windows indexing service to make my system slow. That is in the windows file explorer window. Then you can turn of windows indexing for the profile folders. I have even seen folk coming here with 6 or 120 GB inbox folders because they have no control over their own information and just expect software to manage it for them. Given the huge allocations of space Google, Yahoo and Hotmail offer folders of more than a 1 GB are becoming particularly comment as everyone becomes a pack rat and keeps everything for ever. 1 GB file takes about 10 minutes to scan, and if you get mail every 10 minutes, then the scanning and getting of mail fall over one another. This is significantly worsened if your storage files are large. "Not responding" is a frequent result of that kind of contention. Nothing like having some other service trying to access the inbox file just when Thunderbird tries. You might consider preventing the anti virus from scanning the Thunderbird profile folders. That way, each email is written into the temp folder of your computer and scanned by the anti virus before it is subsequently coped back into Thunderbird for storage in a mail folder. If you just can not get by without it, disable it in the anti virus program and enable the allow anti virus to scan email in Thunderbird options. I have seen individual emails scanned three or four times before anyone actually get to see them. They slow normal computer functions by about 30% with their actions and on email is can be significantly more than that. The next thing is disable any and all "mail scanning" in those ubiquitous anti virus things. But then they do not have to field the user support requests that come from that decision either. Compacting is not optional, even though the developers insist there has to be a user option to disable it. Folks do all sorts of silly thing with compacting like saying NO when the program tries to insist it is needed and then get upset when without basic housekeeping functions Thunderbird gets clogged drains. You could choose compact from the file menu to have Thunderbird remove all the old deleted mail that is probably clogging up your inbox and other folders. Well one thing you could probably do to speed things up is upgrade from the venerable Windows 7.
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