Which security settings?

[cianpars 1,165]

Noted a few stutters of late that are fairly regular and about a minutes apart, so I suspect windows 10 may be responsible.  Firewall or virus scan?  Which ones (if any) do you keep on or switch off?  Is there a quick way to do this or can they be set to ignore msfs or my entire E drive if necessary?

[devgrp 1,233]

If you are using windows security, you can add msfs to the exclusion list so it won't be scanned 

[cianpars 1,165]

20 minutes ago, devgrp said:

If you are using windows security, you can add msfs to the exclusion list so it won't be scanned 

Yeah, thanks.  It's already set to ignore my entire E drive, but I still have a stutter.  May be unrelated, but will run a flight with all security settings of and see if it is any different.

[Maladoror 89]

The windows desktop wallpaper sideshow can cause a stutter. I have over 100 4k screenshots that change once an hour and when it changes my system stutters. You can see this when watching videos or task manager. Do you have a slideshow and how often does it change? Long shot.

[Cloudrider 4]

You really don't want to turn off either I'm afraid. But the Firewall should not be an issue as it will recognise legitimate traffic initiated from inside your PC perimeter - MSFS for example.
Virus scan will impact especially on deep scans, but I would I move the scan to 'out of hours' if you can.

[cianpars 1,165]

1 hour ago, Maladoror said:

The windows desktop wallpaper sideshow can cause a stutter. I have over 100 4k screenshots that change once an hour and when it changes my system stutters. You can see this when watching videos or task manager. Do you have a slideshow and how often does it change? Long shot.

Nope, just the bog standard W10 desktop for me.  I find many pictures and slideshows make the icons a bit difficult to see, so just stick to the basic - which uses minimum resources.

I have a lot of addons, so that may be the issue.  Time to empty the community folder and see what happens.  Whatever, if the odd stutter is the price I have to pay, I guess I can live with it.