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Windows Defender makes it painfully slow to access files
I'm new to using Defender. I finally got sick of AVG and dumped it. So I have Defender enabled with real-time protection, but now accessing files is unbelievably slow. I might as well have a virus at this point.
For example, I use a Nexus dock program which builds up the icons for my different apps I have in the dock. Every reboot, it needs to rebuild the app icons again as I hover over each tab. With Defender off, the icons build very quickly - just a few seconds. Same when I had AVG installed and running. As soon as Defender is enabled, it takes easily 10 times longer - to the point where I'd say it breaks my PC. Is this what people put up with when running Defender? Am I missing something?
I'm about to go shop around for another free antivirus option, but before I do I wanted to see if this is normal behavior. I saw some forum post elsewhere that suggested to exclude a ton of file types to make accessing them quicker, including .exe and a ton of other common files (jpg, txt, etc.) but at that point, I won't have any protection as everything will be excluded, lol.
And if it does this even just accessing app icons, what will it do when I download, copy, extract or run large files?