Author: Andreas Plahn

Useful Windows Defender exclusions to speed up development environment

If you work as a developer with tools such as Angular, Java, Node, Git etc. here are some useful exclusions to add to Windows Defender. It will speed your development computer up.
(In windows 10: search for “defender” -> “Virus & threat protection …” -> “Exclusions” -> Add or remove exclusions).

Node.js:
Process:
node.exe

Folders:
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache

Your projects/repos folder:
C:\Repos

IDEs:
File: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Folder: C:\Program Files\JetBrains\WebStorm 2018.3.4

Various tools/processes:
Process: java.exe
Process: git.exe
Process: SourceTree.exe

There might be improvements depending on which type of exclusions that is most efficient. E.g. folder exclusion instead of a single exe file etc.

Warning! This means the above processes, folders and files are no longer under protection. Use at own risk. 

Adding exclusions using powershell:
Start powershell as administrator.
Enter this:

Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess node.exe
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess git.exe
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess SourceTree.exe
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess SourceTree.exe
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess devenv.exe
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess Code.exe
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath C:\Repos
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\WebStorm 2019.3.3"

More info regarding exclusions:

You can exclude certain files, folders, processes, and process-opened files from Windows Defender Antivirus scans. Such exclusions apply to scheduled scans, on-demand scans, and always-on real-time protection and monitoring. Exclusions for process-opened files only apply to real-time protection.

When you add a process to the process exclusion list, Windows Defender Antivirus won’t scan files opened by that process, no matter where the files are located. The process itself, however, will be scanned unless it has also been added to the file exclusion list.

The process exclusions only apply to always-on real-time protection and monitoring. They don’t apply to scheduled or on-demand scans.

From: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-antivirus/configure-exclusions-windows-defender-antivirus

 

 

Everything – really fast file search for Windows

A tool I use frequently, so much faster than windows built-in search function.

Everything
Locate files and folders by name instantly.

Small installation file

Clean and simple user interface

Quick file indexing

Quick searching

Minimal resource usage

Share files with others easily

Real-time updating

Source: voidtools

Ditto clipboard manager

One of my favorite tools used many, many times every day. A real time saver, I can copy several texts/printscreen/file items and then paste them one at a time. I have bound the hotkey ctrl+shift+v to bring up the available clipboard items menu, which is searchable.  I have setting popup position set to “At Cursor”.

Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, custom formats, …..

Features Easy to use interface Search and paste previous copy entries Keep multiple computer’s clipboards in sync Data is encrypted when sent over the network Accessed from tray icon or global hot key Select entry by double click, enter key or drag drop Paste into any window that excepts standard copy/paste entries Display thumbnail of copied images in list Full Unicode support(display foreign characters) UTF-8 support for language files(create language files in any language) Uses sqlite database (www.sqlite.org)

Source: Ditto clipboard manager

PicPick – Screen Capture Software

PicPick – This is currently my preferred screen capture widget.

A full-featured screen capture tool, Intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel-ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and more.

Source: PicPick – All-in-one Graphic Design, Best Screen Capture Software, Image Editor, Color Picker, Pixel Ruler and More | PicPick – All-in-one Graphic Design, Best Screen Capture Software, Image Editor, Color Picker, Pixel Ruler and More

On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git

This document is an attempt to be a fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git. It isn’t that git is so complicated that you need a large document to take care of your particular problem, it is more that the set of things that you might have done is so large that different techniques are needed depending on exactly what you have done and what you want to have happen.

Source: On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git