Why does Windows Defender have a shell extension that slows down Explorer in Windows 10?

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On my system after some windows updates, possibly due to my changing a Windows Defender configuration, Explorer has been taking a second (more like several) to create a new folder and the same time again to rename it. Even opening the Explorer program seems to be sluggish. I ran Autoruns.exe as an Administrator and systematically disabled the shell extensions in the Explorer tab and the extension that's causing the problem is "EPP" or the Window Defender shell extension. Once I unchecked the 3 listed in the registry keys Explorer went back to operating as before.Can this be due to having a set

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