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Don't forget to disable Windows Defender which does lots of realtime scanning and hogs CPU resources and disk IO. A complete piece of trash that automatically deletes false positives. Never have I been so disappointed with Windows 10 than after upgrading and seeing this thing enabling itself and running.

(To the downvoters: I would love to hear feedback about why I'm mistaken here. Windows 7 didn't need such an authoritarian defender (auto-deleting things, scanning, etc.) and it felt just as safe)



I see Defender as a symptom - as it monitors the files, it only checks files that some other process opens. Go solve a problem of second process regularly accessing files on idle PC.


I hope that you are correct. That was also my assumption but I have not validated it.




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