Blender loading slow on startup with Windows Defender full scan in the background

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Hello, I’m not sure if this is the right category for this so if a moderator deems it to be in the wrong category, you are free to move it.

Blender was running normally, until I ran a full scan in Windows Defender in the background, now the startup is very slow and sometimes crashes before it gets to the splash screen.

my PC specs are:

Ryzen 5 5700x
RTX 2060 SUPER
128GB DDR4 memory (2133mHZ)
and multiple HDDs and SSDs

I’m using Windows 10 and Blender 4.0.

EDIT: This error is also replicable with the 4.2LTS on steam, and is more prone to crashing

(Also as a very distantly related aside, the forum is telling me that this draft is being edited in another window right now, is this an issue with my computer or the forum?)

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That’s right, if you’re running an examination with Windows Defender, your HDD (SSD) will be slow to read and write.
This slows down the execution of the blender.

If you have a serious problem like the one mentioned, there may be a problem with the storage device itself.
Use a free program like Crystal Info to check for abnormalities in your storage device

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