Most antivirus will do this, its not just restricted to Windows Defender.
I’ve stopped using the MS Cloud app because it was ignoring the settings changes I made and did its own thing so it filled up with data that triggered the charges. So I dont use it and have it switched off when the OS is installed.
So what I have found, is despite using the flags in the EX version to limit to directories the api’s fetch everything in the folder or path location. I still have to filter out everything that is not a directory, which is the same behaviour I see when I use the built in Clarion Directory function. The extra time I see on Win10 I am putting down to more files in each folder location which then needs to be filtered out.
I havent tried the Transacted api yet, still on the todo list, but in order to solve another problem, I’ve had to go off onto something else, namely modifying some templates to get them to work because the problem of the template group names having to be unique in the template registry and not just the template chain is possibly why some of my templates have failed when I go to use them later on.
So I’m having to build an app and function to scan all the template files and extract all the group names so that I can see whether they are unique at the registry level as per the problem detailed here How can I force the Registry to recognise the template code has changed inside a file that is loaded in the Registry?