I have been having a number of problems ever since I got a new laptop with Windows 8. I'm not sure I can blame this one on Windows though.
I use Thunderbird to access newsgroups and it seems to mostly work most of the time. But it has never worked well under Windows 8. One recurring problem I have is when it updates the firewall has to be told of the new checksum. Usually updating that gets it working again. But this time something else seems to have happened.
First I couldn't get it to come up reliably. Most times it wouldn't find the files and would show no email or newsgroup accounts. Rebooting seems to have fixed that as it was waiting to run a new rev I guess or maybe was stuck in the middle of updating or who knows what. I had to update the checksum to let it on the Internet of course. But now when I start it up, it can't send any messages for a while. It appears that if I ignore it and return later it has regained the ability to send a post and works ok after that.
Anyone have an idea of what is going on?
My firewall is Sophos and Windows defender is disabled.
lol, I guess it isn't a matter of not working when I first load the program. I couldn't send this message after having sent others.