Thunderbird Portable

I noticed that v1.5 seemed to take a very long time to load.
By "Load" I mean the time from clicking on the startup icon to where my Inbox messages are shown. Both versions are on the same USB stick.
v1.0.7 took 16 seconds
v1.5 (20051025) took 2 minutes and 51 seconds.

Both versions had about the same number of messages in the various folders.
Both have compacted folders.

Any hints?

Plus, I see in v1.5 even though I have set check for new mail every 20 minutes, nothing new is ever in my Inbox until I manually click on Get All Messages.

Has anyone seen anything like the following?

When I plug my Memorex 1GB thumbdrive into my laptop PC running WinXP (with it's USB 1.1 port...ugh!), I see the following (which does not happen when I plug into my desktop PC running WinXP (with a USB 2.0 port/hub)):

The thumbdrive shows up without the label I gave it, just as "Removable Disk," and it is shown as being in RAW format, not FAT32. Know that it *actually works fine* here, unlike what seeing RAW here can often mean. If you call up a command prompt and look at the drive, it says it's FAT32. If you go to Disk Management under Administrative Tools/Computer Management in the Control Panel, you see the message "connecting to logical disk manager service" and when it connects, you see the USB drive label update correctly in Windows Explorer, along with the correct FAT32 identification there, plus it shows up in Disk Management correctly. I had both the logical disk manager services on manual, then switched it to automatic, but it makes no difference. It seems that these services just wont start when you plug in the USB drive, but if you call up "Disk Management" via the Control Panel, , they do start (you don't have to go to Services to start these...they just start right here).

Although your "extension-friendly" launcher is supposed to alter the paths to any extensions to be relative (and seems to work fine), some configuration parameters (for example, "mail.root" as seen with the about.com extension) have the drive letter specified. Obviously, the assigned drive letter may change from computer to computer or depending on how many USB flash drives are connected. At least one extension ("Thunderbird Reset Quote Header" from www.supportware.net/mozilla/) requires you to browse for the text file it will use and then hard codes the drive letter into the configuration (which can be edited with about.com). Consequently, it isn't a relative path, and it doesn't work if the drive letter changes. Under the U3 modifications, is there a work-around or solution to redirect specified drive letters to currently assigned drive letters, or can % be used somehow?

Hello, how can i auto-set a higher-than-normal or high priority for thunderbird.exe on WinXP SP2?
I've noticed that you can't simply set the command on the shortcut 'cause it triggers Portable Thunderbird Launcher and not Thunderbird.exe.
Thanks

having used PT now on a couple of different machines (to successfully recieve email), one on a network, and one on a similar home wireless set up to the one i have at home. I find i can only send and receive on my own machine. Whenever i try to send i get a very longwinded message about servers, if anyone has any suggestions i would be most greatful
Cheers

How do I get TB to trigger for an update? Firefox did this right away, and I haven't had any issues with it, but TB won't update. I don't want to try to install the regular install program to the portable folder.

I'm using PT 1.5 on Windows and it's just started hanging on a Get Mail command.

It will usually download the first piece, then hang on the second one. It just started this behaviour recently, and I can't figure it out. The next eMail message isn't unusually large or an html message necessarily.

The only thing I can think of that I'm doing strangely is using PT on a Mac and on Windows accessing the same profile. The Mac version (also 1.5) seems to occasionally hang on program start.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

Installed v1.5, nice changes over the previous PT.
Then, PT got an auto-update.... since then v1.5 has been very slow and constantly thrashing the USB drive. Junk is now turned off and it still thrashes and takes forever to load.
Deleted xul.mfl, restarted, no change

Normally when I start using a new mail client, my Norton Antivirus detect it and check the mail when it is sent and when it is received, however it seems that with PTB this is not happening. Any idea on how can I protect my Mail??

the Get Mail button doesn't work. If I click the little black arrow and tell to Get All New Message, that works.

Any ideas?

NOTE: I have multiple email accounts I connect to. Possible reason.