Exclude Code from Defender

If you are using Windows, or other OSes which have antivirus/malware scanners installed such as Windows Defender, you can increase the responsiveness and decrease the time taken for your code installs, transpiles, complies, etc by simply excluding your code from their scans.

Best practice, keep your versioned code in a common directory, such as

C:/Users/[user]/My Documents/ado/[repo-name]

or 

C:/dev/git/[repo-name]

And then simply exclude that directory from your antivirus/malware scanner(s).

An example for Windows Defender on Windows 10

 

After excluding your code directory, code installs such as npm, composer, nuget, maven, etc will not take as long and use much less resources eg cpu, disk i/o.

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