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Moved to a new PC, email takes forever when I delete more than one at a time

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ackerliz
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Its driving me crazy. When I select a group of Inbox emails, and delete them, it is taking forever. The window will display a "not responding" message, eventually clear that and then the emails are deleted. But it takes way too long. Windows 11, most recent update. Thunderbird, it just updated. I was on a Win 10 computer, same Thunderbird version and deleting took merely a blink to happen.

Win 10 has both VPN AND AV. Win 11 has neither. Help! Thank you,

Its driving me crazy. When I select a group of Inbox emails, and delete them, it is taking forever. The window will display a "not responding" message, eventually clear that and then the emails are deleted. But it takes way too long. Windows 11, most recent update. Thunderbird, it just updated. I was on a Win 10 computer, same Thunderbird version and deleting took merely a blink to happen. Win 10 has both VPN AND AV. Win 11 has neither. Help! Thank you,

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christ1
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Win 10 has both VPN AND AV. Win 11 has neither.

There is always anti-virus software running on a Windows computer. If you haven't deliberately installed some sort of 3rd-party antivirus software, you'll be running Windows Defender.

The window will display a "not responding" message

Create an exclusion in Defender for the Thunderbird profile folder, so that the anti-virus real-time scanner will not scan it. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_how-to-find-your-profile

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