Designer Slow startup (seems to lock up at "Starting module: Perspective")

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Designer/Perspective Workstation slow startup on Windows - advisory and recommended hotfix

Recently, a Windows Defender update rolled out that is inadvertently causing dramatically slower launching of the Ignition Designer, Perspective Workstation, and Vision with the Web Browser module installed. This is confirmed to be related to the packaged Chromium browser extraction due to some change in Windows Defender. The remediation options are: Add the directory with Chromium binaries to the whitelist. Rollback the Windows Defender update. Our recommendation is to add the binaries dir…