On May 2, 2016, upon clicking on the Thunderbird icon on the desktop, instead of bringing up an email inbox, I got an announcement of Thunderbird 45.0 ??? plus support topics for various parts of the Mozilla-Thunderbird operation. CenturyLink , my isp and original email provider still provides basic inbox and send capabilities so I was able to get a new password, but it turns out that even that would not help with my efforts to upgrade or override the Thunderbird version that I have been using for threeplus years. I couldn't even get a click to work to start downloading an upgrade. There are no symptoms to describe. The Thunderbird email system overnight went from 100% working to 0% in that clicking on the icon does not bring up the inbox, although incoming emails are getting through to CenturyLink. I am running on Windows 7 and am still on I.E. 8 although I do not know if this has any bearing on the email situation. I have no special wish to return to the somewhat inferior CenturyLink email system so I hope you can provide me with some guidance towards returning my missing email capability. Thanks in advance. Franklin Schroeter x@centurytel.net Somers, Montana

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