Win 8 laptop half dead
My Win8 laptop (I know, it wasn't broke so I didn't fix it) has started to throw in the towel. I think the issue started with an upgrade to the Thunderbird mail browser a couple of weeks ago. One day the machine woke up as normal but neither Mailwasher nor Thunderbird would interact with the pop3 mail server. At first I thought that it was an issue with the pop3 server so I called them and some not very helpful person on their techy support started to tell me that they had migrated my service to a more secure server and I would need to change my server port numbers and create a more secure password. While this was going in one ear and out the other I managed to access my account via livemail webmail using my original port nos and passwords.........
So, I have a lappy that wakes up, asks for my Win password and then clears to a blue screen and nothing else happens. I can get a task manager up and see nothing hogging any resources. Double clicking the Thunderbird process gets me access to last years emails but I cannot send, receive or delete any of them. I did manage to open a control panel but none of the icons works, I was going to check the firewall access to see if the new version of Thunderbird had the correct privileges.
I am at a bit of a loss now. Anyone, please