

Right click “Windows Search”, click “Properties”.Since I use Everything for file search almost exclusively, and Indexing provides questionable benefit on SSDs anyways, I elected to completely disable the Windows Search service.

That checks all the boxes! Solution 1: Hit it with a very large hammer. Also, this is apparently particularly a problem in Windows 10. Number 6 on the list mentions the Windows Indexer may be causing the problem, and the linked Bugzilla entry describes the problem as occurring while writing emails, sending emails, or saving drafts.

Also excluded Windows Defender from scanning the Thunderbird profile folder, to no avail. Same problem, so it wasn’t the fault of any extensions. Always the latest (or nearly-latest) version of the email is saved in the Drafts folder, which led me to believe that it had something to do with the process of saving a draft.įollowing Mozilla’s testing guidelines, first test was using Thunderbird in Safe Mode. Thunderbird Hangs When Saving Draft Last Updated July 2017īeen having an issue lately with Thunderbird hanging, sometimes several times an hour.
