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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Windows Development Software - Tweaks

This is a series of posts which will list some useful apps for development and general usage of Windows. These are just some examples of what can be useful. Of course, use any app you already know or have.

tweak windows:

Open Shell

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

Start menu replacement with Classic style Start Menu for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Toolbar for Windows Explorer

Winaero Tweaker

https://winaerotweaker.com/

Winaero Tweaker is a freeware app, all-in-one application that comes with dozens of options for fine-grained tuning of various Windows settings and features.

O&O ShutUp10

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated.

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