Am 10/6/2012 8:41 AM, schrieb Walter Bright: > When I first installed Win7, I was having problems with erratic failures > to write executable files while running the D test suite. Eventually, I > discovered that Windows Defender was the problem, as it tried to do a > virus can on every exe the test suite produced. > > Turning off WD helped a lot, but I still got those failures every once > in a while. > > I have since discovered that "Microsoft Security Essentials" was doing a > "real time scan", mucking things up. That has to be turned off, too.
Jep, it's definitely not easy to get this reliable on Windows. Back when I had a similar problem, an explorer window displaying the same folder also caused this.