Hi, I have KIS and W10 Pro, and am a developer in VB.NET (VS2017/VS2019). In one program there are calls to any of the default apps (i.e. Acrobat Reader for *.pdf, Excel for *.xls* and so on), outside of my program. The calls are issued by “Process” command that essentially make a call to the default app for the extension. Everything was smooth up to approx 1 week ago: from that moment the calls have become *extremely* slow. On an i7 machine I am talking of approx 2-3 secs compared with maybe 0.2-0.3 secs before. This happens both for running source version and compiled version, and also on another PC running W10 home + KIS. Looking for the cause, I reinstalled W10 Pro. Then I found that installing Kis (with almost no software installed) causes the slowing down. Deinstalling KIS the problem disappears. I also found that switching off the protection (in “General”) in KIS doesn’t solve the problem, as well as switching off any of the components (i tried one per time). Is there a way to solve this problem? Thx