Not responding happens with several programs

[DavidR]

@bintyre post:1

Using Windows 10 and have used Avast Free for many years. Lately programs have been locking up with Not Responding… have to wait a minute or two before it clears. Happens with Wordpad, Firefox, Thunderbird and Windows programs too. Drivers are up to date, scanned for malware, etc., etc., and nothing seems to help. I did read on a forum that sometimes anti-virus programs can cause this error. Any thoughts? Thanks.

I use all of the programs you mentioned (I highlighted) also win10 Home, latest update and I’m not seeing that.

Firefox (latest regular release version), I use a lot during the course of the day and helping out on the forums, when I might have 10 or more tabs open or pinned.

Thunderbird is my default email client and that is currently running thunderbird version 91.1.

Whilst I have used WordPad (which should be pretty light), my default Office software is LibreOffice and I would imagine that would be a bit heavier than WordPad.

This is all under Avast Free 21.5.2470 (build 21.5.6354.680) I didn’t feel the need to update to 21.6 and I’m still considering if I need 21.7 no bugs or functions that I need.