Windows Defender was making FrakenPHP slow

[kiatng]

I installed FrankenPHP natively on a Windows laptop. It worked but it was embarrassingly slow, a page load took 5 to 10 secs. I put Opus 4.8 to task, it ran in a few sessions due to the 5 hours rate limit, tried a bunch of things. A couple of times, Opus confidently reported it fixed the issue but didn't. It went on and on and finally, it flagged Windows Defender as a possible culprit. It couldn't do anything about it because the fix requires running PowerShell as admin:

# Use your actual project path and FrankenPHP install location
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "D:\Repo\belimbing"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "$HOME\.frankenphp"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess "frankenphp.exe"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess "php.exe"

I'm not sure if any of the above instructions may be unnecessary, but right away, the page load is at least 10x faster.

[AlliBalliBaba]

Yeah Windows defender kind of makes everything slow, which is why I usually recommend WSL as dev environment on Windows. WSL has its own issues, but it's gotten better over the years and defender has no power there.