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When I open thunderbird, it opens 4 windows at once and when I close the windows they show in the lower right corner.

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When I open thunderbird, it opens 4 windows at once and when I close the windows they show in the lower right corner. If I right-click on one of those icons in the lower right corner and click EXIT, they all disappear (close I suppose). How do I fix this?

When I open thunderbird, it opens 4 windows at once and when I close the windows they show in the lower right corner. If I right-click on one of those icons in the lower right corner and click EXIT, they all disappear (close I suppose). How do I fix this?
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Do you still get multiple windows if you start Thunderbird in its Safe Mode? We know of some add-ons having caused similar issues.

Hold down shift whilst starting Thunderbird.

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close each one... open them fully. On the toolbar > Exit

This situation is usually the result of right clicking a folder and selecting open in a new window. Once you close using the relevant X they should stay closed.

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Didn't work. If I click EXIT on one of the 4 windows, they all close. Then all of them re-open when I open Thunderbird.

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Interesting thing - if I close one of the 4 windows with X, actually 2 of them minimize to the system tray (lower right corner). Then if I click X on one of the remaining 2 windows, both of them minimize to system tray. If I click EXIT, either in one of the windows or in the system tray, all 4 of them close at the same time.

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Alt+F4 closes an active window. Can you close out the extra Windows that way?

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Didn't work either. Alt+F4 minimizes windows one by one to the system tray and then it's all over again.

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Try pressing F10 to enable the main menu bar and use the option on the file menu to exit.

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Tried that already. Didn't help either.

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Any other suggestions? I tried reinstalling the thunderbird. That did not help either..

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Do you still get multiple windows if you start Thunderbird in its Safe Mode? We know of some add-ons having caused similar issues.

Hold down shift whilst starting Thunderbird.

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It did work! Sweet! Thank you, Zenos! :) At first it did not work. I chose "Disable all add-ons" and then "Reset toolbars toolbars and controls". It still opened 4 windows. Then I right clicked Thunderbird icon in the task bar, clicked 'Close windows' and the next time it opened only one window like it's supposed to. Thanks again! :)