You don't need to turn off Windows Defender, you need to disable the file system filters entirely. You can do that with Dev Drive [0][1] which is currently on

You don't need to turn off Windows Defender, you need to disable the file system filters entirely. You can do that with Dev Drive [0][1] which is currently on the Win 11 dev branch. You can't do this for your boot volume, but you can do it for a [dynamically expanding] VHDX, secondary partition, or secondary volume. It will use ReFS (oddly enough, with 4 KiB clusters by default -- though it makes sense for the target scenario, unlike past uses of ReFS). [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/ [1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-drive-performance-security-and-control-for-developers/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-dr...