About 4 weeks back I cleared all temp files with System Internals "cleanafterme", then defragged HDD using "Vopt 9". I had just started using this "Archive" folder a couple weeks ago as I read that it can speed TBird up.
Last Friday I had TBird work offline, then I ran MultiXPunge to empty trash then compact.
I only just started using MultiXPunge about 2 weeks ago, in the hopes that compacting everything would speed up TBird.
XP's Task Manager shows Thunderbird takes 78 to 83MB Mem Usage, 64 to 70MB Vm usage, ~150K Paged Pool.
The total Page File usage for the PC is 360MB (+/-10MB) out of 1GB available.
When Archiving an email the Task Manager's CPU Usage goes between 5% upto 32%.
Then just before the TBird freeze is over and TBird screen refreshes there's a very brief usage of ~97%.
So when Archiving there are 3 programs that use the memory during this process
AvastSvc.exe, thunderbird.exe, explorer.exe
AvastSvc seems to be working the most, sporadically alternating between the other 2 programs.
And it is AvastSvc that appears to have the 97% usage spike.
Hmmm, according to Vopt9, the Archives.msf is 2MB and Archives is 610MB, and both are fragmented, so I'll defrag those files and let you know if it makes TBird run better.
Thank you