Issue 505 · Week of Sep 10, 2026
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Rider took 44 s to start because of Defender — Microsoft fixed it in Defender itself

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JetBrains traced slow Rider and ReSharper startup to Microsoft Defender scanning processes installed in user-writable folders: up to 44 seconds versus under one second for Visual Studio. Defender 1.449.454.0 brings it under 5 seconds.