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You would not be using Thunderbird to check mail would you? if so, that can really freeze your PC when you have several e-mails. It is a interaction between Thunderbird and your virus scanner. If you are using Thunderbird, I have the fix for this issue.
In this situation, even if you kind of move away from checking your e-mail, it still gives you issues until Thunderbird and your virus program get done messing with you. This drove me nuts for a long time until I found the fix for it.
Stan in Chambersburg
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Try turning off your virus protection when you see this issue. My problem had Thunderbird involved but maybe other mail programs have the issue too. I found out that several virus checking programs are too aggressive and they check things that are not necessary.
I was using the standard windows defender virus program. It was checking into Thunderbird's profile folder and once it started that, the whole PC went bonkers. Even when Thunderbird was minimized and I was doing other things on the PC.
Several other virus programs will do this too, but some others do not. My solution was to EXCLUDE the Thunderbird profile folder from being checked by windows defender. I do know that it is only some virus programs that are this aggressive. I am not sure that Thunderbird is the only mail program that is involved. One thing for sure, my issue was the virus program getting itself into a tizzy when it went into the Thunderbird profile folder.
My Thunderbird was pointed to my G-Mail and the more unread email that was there , the longer it screwed up the PC. The virus program would not find a virus, but it would not quit scanning the Profile folder using up resources of the PC.
After a lot of digging, I found out that it was totally necessary for any virus program to scan a profile folder.
Maybe this is not your issue, but if you have not temporarily disabled your virus protection to check this issue, I would recommend that you try it.
Another thing, I had this issue really bad on Windows 11. It was much worse on windows 11 than older versions of windows.
Stan