[Isthatablackgsd]

> I blame Windows Defender (anti-virus).

It would be nice if Windows Defender tone down their on-the-fly aggressive scanning for anything I/O related. For any I/O activity, it regularly consumes up to 30% of my CPU. Moving files to a different directory rev up Windows Defender even it scans the folder in the past.

I wish there is a granular control over Windows Defenders in a way that it would not be aggressive with every I/O activity. I would assume that Microsoft intentionally did this due to rise of randomware attacks and we unfortunately have inept people who mindlessly clicking anything. And they don't want to be liable for being lax.

[trympet]

You may want to give dev drive a try https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

[hu3]

Exactly. If only I could tell Windows Defender to ignore every node_modules directory I have in my computer. Literally millions of files.

[whalesalad]

The solution is to not use windows.