Strange freezing in emacs

[Ryan Johnson]

On 10/11/2011 5:21 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 5:10 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just installed a big mess of windows updates and rebooted, and ever
>> since emacs seems to have trouble with subprocesses: when attempting to
>> read mercurial revision info for a file or running make, it sometimes
>> freezes for 5-10 seconds without doing anything at all (no disk, no
>> cpu), then suddenly responds lightning fast as if nothing had happened.
>> It doesn't happen every time, and I don't get any of the usual fork
>> failure error messages (plus I just barely rebased to no avail).
>>
>> I'm perfectly willing to blame this on Windows, but does anybody have
>> pointers on how I might diagnose the issue?
>
> Have you disabled Windows Defender?
!!! It silently reinstalled itself at some point, or (just as likely) it 
just lied about leaving the first time. Stopped, disabled, rebooted, all 
is well.

Does anybody know how to really uninstall Windows Defender? None of the 
tips I can find online seem effective. It's like a virus the way it 
keeps sneaking back!

Meanwhile, I guess I'll just have to puppy guard the darn thing.

Thanks again,
Ryan


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