{"id":2122,"date":"2018-08-18T17:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2018-08-18T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T17:57:23","slug":"windows-10-super-slow-copy-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/windows-10-super-slow-copy-speeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 &#8211; Super slow copy speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Windows Defender Real-time protection can cause issues when trying to copy files on a local drive even if the drive is an SSD.\u00a0 Typically a copy seems to start out great, but then slows down to a crawl less then 1MB\/s copy rate.\u00a0 Probably has to do with Defender having to scan every file as it is copied.<\/p>\n<p>To fix\/increase the copy speeds you can turn off Real-time protection.<\/p>\n<p>To turn off Windows Defender Real-time protection, open up Settings &gt; Update and Security &gt; Windows Security &gt; Virus &amp; threat protection &#8220;That should open up the Windows Defender Security Center&#8221; &gt; Virus &amp; threat protection settings<\/p>\n<p>Now Turn Real-time protection off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Windows Defender Real-time protection can cause issues when trying to copy files on a local drive even if the drive is an SSD.\u00a0 Typically a copy seems to start out great, but then slows down to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/windows-10-super-slow-copy-speeds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,181],"tags":[511,429,13,143,510],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","category-windows-10","tag-511","tag-copy","tag-microsoft","tag-ssd","tag-windows-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}