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by nullindividual 690 days ago
> For the life of me I cannot understand why Defender blocks Explorer.

I suppose if you wanted to find out, you could use dtrace/ETW.

Explorer has other things going on, though, including other apps that hook into it (shell extensions, like Adobe Reader, TortiseGit/SVN, and so on) which can certainly cause performance issues.