Npm is very slow on Windows 10

Question

This question is basically a duplicate of this , except that the accepted answer to this question was “it's not really slower, you just didn't run the time command correctly.

In my case, this is actually slower! :)

I am on Windows 10. Here's the output of the PowerShell Measure-Command (the TotalMilliseconds line corresponds to the wall clock time):

PS> Measure-Command {npm --version}

Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 1
Milliseconds      : 481
Ticks             : 14815261
TotalDays         : 1.71472928240741E-05
TotalHours        : 0.000411535027777778
TotalMinutes      : 0.0246921016666667
TotalSeconds      : 1.4815261
TotalMilliseconds : 1481.5261

A few other numbers to compare:

• '{. \ node_modules.bin \ mocha}': 1300ms
• 'npm run test' (only starts mocha): 3300ms
• npm help: 1900 ms.
• the node interpreter itself is fine node -e 0:: 180ms

npm, ... mocha , 42 , , , 1300 42 !

Answer 1

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//GIT Bash Configuration
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",

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Answer 2

. Symantec Endpoint Protection? Symantec. : "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\smc.exe" -stop.

Powershell git , : Measure-Command { git status }