404868 - Thuderbird restarts automatically after program is closed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Dan Rumney]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

Whenever I close Thunderbird, it automatically reopens.

Using process explorer, it appears to be a child of svchost.exe

The new thunderbird process starts just before the old one is remove from the process table.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close Thunderbird


Actual Results:  
Thunderbird reopened

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should not reopen

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Whenever I close Thunderbird, it automatically reopens.

Some preloaded utilities have feature of "automatic start of default mailer", and it is enabled by default when some vender's PC. 
This kind of utility can easily produce phenomenon like that.

What will happen when "Outlook Express" is set as "Default Mailer" on MS Win?

Comment 2

[Donald Johnston]

I was having this problem also and it turns out the "utility" that was being so helpful was the IBM Active Think Desktop.  I found the following workaround at "http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=12504&sid=30d82ec1c2d7d8bef7c5a2c0685c3191"

* use "regedit" to open your registry files.
* locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{29F458BE-8866-11D5-A3DD-00B0D0F3BAA7}\LocalServer32
* replace the "default" value with anything (e.g. "abc")
* close the registry files.

The "default" value was pointing to thunderbird.exe.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter can you reply to comment #1 and comment #2?

The issue is still present?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> incomplete due to no response