Autopilot Switches To "work" Profile With Thunderbird Loaded

Well, I've been looking into this for close to two weeks now, thinking it was a bug with Windows 10.


At completely random intervals, the "app notifications" would be disabled and the option to enable them in settings would be grayed out.


In the end I discovered that it was Autopilot's profile selector that would switch to the "Work" profile with no apparent reason.


After further trial and error I found out that it will switch the profile when Thunderbird is loaded.


However, Thunderbird NEEDS to be loaded so that it will periodically check for new e-mails.


Of further interest is that this behavior only happens sporadically even though I always keep Thunderbird loaded, I suspect that it has to do with which loads first, Thunderbird or Bitdefender, as I have Thunderbird to load when Windows start.


Thunderbird needs to be excluded from the Work profile and if not, there needs to be a whitelist so that users could keep it out on a personal basis.

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