# Bulk actions making PC unusable

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-actions-making-pc-unusable/61533
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 12, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-actions-making-pc-unusable/61533 "2023-07-12T23:25:41Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-actions-making-pc-unusable/61533/2 "2023-07-13T05:23:54Z")

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> [@Valik](#):
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> The action took 2 hours to complete

That is rather slow, I think.  
So you have to tell us a little more about the setup of your environment.  
Frequent bottlenecks are: storage connected via USB or network, NAS software being slow/interfering, anti-virus programs like Windows defender get nosy

> [@Windows Defender - Speed of loading files in MP3Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-defender-speed-of-loading-files-in-mp3tag/47784):
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> In the past I already noticed that the antivirus-software of windows-defender slows down the loading speed of files in MP3Tag dramatically: At this time my third-party antivirus-software (Avast) had been gotten accidently deactivated and windows-defender activated. This time I wanted to give windows-defender a second chance, deinstalled Avast and activated the defender. The same happened as before: Mp3Tag became very slow in loading files in spite of the activated library-function. I tes…

Also, you have to check whether other programs access the files at the same time as they notice a change so that MP3tag access is blocked for some time.  
The file type like large FLAC or video files slow down the process.  
These would be the buttons and knobs that you can twiddle and tweak.

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