[maccard]

I don’t understand why, but I have an exemption for that folder and I’ve disabled real time scanning. It still shows the slowdown on first launch. The only thing that works is disabling windows defender entirely. I’ve been through the troubleshooting loop a few times with this.

[xnyan]

Out of curiosity, does Dev Drive do anything for you? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

[maccard]

I'm setting one up tomorrow.