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Ask HN: Windows Defender is making Windows 11 unusably slow
Windows Defender is making Windows 11 unusably slow. What can I use instead?
- talldayo 2y agoModern OSes constantly indexing all your files is not a bug, it's a feature. If you want your alternative you can install it from a live USB at your earliest convenience.
- okay_yes 2y ago[dead]
- r721 2y agoTry to use Process Monitor by Sysinternals to look at what it does exactly at the moment of slowness: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...
- emmelaich 2y agoI believe you can exclude files / folders from scans. Is it overall slowness or specific apps? You might want to exclude say, builds where there's a lot of processes started. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-security-center-antivirus https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/microsof...
- indulona 2y agoI am on w10 and i have ripped out entire defender and all that security crap. i've been online for quarter of a century and never caught a virus or got hacked. all these security features are waste of hardware resources. i can easily see this being much worse on w11.