TheThing

Hmm, I checked and windows defender is not running after all so I don't think that would change anything ?

1) 21.3.10.391 (h) 2) 10.0.19044 Build 19044 3) Definitely not, it started a few days or a week past and I think I was doing some changes to it or installing some compopnents or something? I don't exactly remember. I thought it was something to do with my installation, however after googling it, I found a solution on Super User stackoverflow: https://superuser.com/a/1411591 When I tried an alternative to the suggested solution of disabling realtime protection in windows defender, it worked flawlessly. Disabling realtime protection changed the startup time to less than a second. After installing Kaspersky and even trying disabling all protection for a minute using Kaspersky's "Pause protection", the startup time did become lower as the title indicates, it still takes a long time to open powershell even with Kaspersky's protection being paused for a whole minute. Is defender maybe still running in the background or something?

Hi there. I was wondering if somebody could help me diagnose the insane long time it takes for powershell to open up. When I open powershell, I get the powershell message but it doesn't give me the command line prompt until exactly 22 seconds later every time: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Try the new cross-platform PowerShell https://aka.ms/pscore6 Wait 22 seconds Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Try the new cross-platform PowerShell https://aka.ms/pscore6 PS C:\Users\My Name Here> _ This also happened with Windows Defender but I noticed with Windows defender, if I disabled realtime protection, powershell would open instantly. I thought maybe Kaspersky would have better realtime protection (I'm a developer so I use powershell a lot) but it seems Kaspersky is also taking forever to scan this. Is there a way for me to whitelist this or at least see which files it is scanning so that I can maybe clean it up or something? Maybe modules or scripts? Thanks in advance.