When a newer version of the popular email client
Mozilla Thunderbird is released, it gets updated automatically in usual cases.
But sometimes the software installation gets botched up and does not allow you
to update Mozilla Thunderbird for some inexplicable reason. In these cases, you have to
take matters into your own hands and manually update Thunderbird yourself.
While it may look like a herculean task in the beginning, after reading this
article you will realize that it can be done very easily.
Here
is how you can update Mozilla Thunderbird in Windows:
1. First
of all you have to close all the open instances of Thunderbird email client. To
do so, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc
hotkey, select Thunderbird from the list and click on End Task button.
2. Visit
the Thunderbird download web page and download the Thunderbird for your system
and language. Save the downloaded file somewhere on your hard disk.
3. Download
and install 7-Zip archiver in
Windows. Then right-click on the Thunderbird package you downloaded in previous
step and choose Extract to “Thunderbird Setup 38.0.1\”. Of course, the version
number could be different.
4. Now
you will have all the Thunderbird files inside the core sub-folder where you
extracted the Thunderbird package. Select all these files by pressing Ctrl+A inside the core sub-folder and
press Ctrl+C to copy them.
5. Open
the update Mozilla Thunderbird (usually C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird
or C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird) and then press Ctrl+V to paste all the files here.
6. You
may have to give administrator permissions to overwrite the older files with
newer ones. Once the copying is done, you have newer version of Thunderbird.
You can now launch Thunderbird from its usual shortcut.
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