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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:
     sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
     sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
 
-Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in their home directory (`%USERPROFILE%`, for example `C:\Users\<user name>\` or `C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\`) or any other location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29) except for `%SYSTEMROOT%\system32` (e.g. **do not** put in `C:\Windows\System32`).
+Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in any location on their [PATH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29) except for `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32` (e.g. **do not** put in `C:\Windows\System32`).
 
 OS X users can install **youtube-dl** with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/).
 
@@ -693,6 +693,10 @@ hash -r
 
 Again, from then on you'll be able to update with `sudo youtube-dl -U`.
 
+### youtube-dl is extremely slow to start on Windows
+
+Add a file exclusion for `youtube-dl.exe` in Windows Defender settings.
+
 ### I'm getting an error `Unable to extract OpenGraph title` on YouTube playlists
 
 YouTube changed their playlist format in March 2014 and later on, so you'll need at least youtube-dl 2014.07.25 to download all YouTube videos.