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Title: Windows 10 - Exiftool hangs forever on startup
Post by: weberjn on July 28, 2016, 05:04:02 AM

The pure Perl version runs fine.
Running exiftool(-k) -ver hangs forever. Process Explorer shows lots of open DLLs in %AppData%\..\Local\Temp\par-776162626c65

C:\Daten\winutl>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]

C:\Daten\winutl>exiftool(-k) -ver
Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)
^C
C:\Daten\winutl>perl "C:\Program Files\ExifTool-10.24\exiftool" -ver
10.24

Title: Re: Windows 10 - Exiftool hangs forever on startup
Post by: Phil Harvey on July 28, 2016, 07:55:11 AM

Thanks for this report. Do you have any antivirus software that could be interfering with ExifTool? Edit: Windows Defender may cause this problem. See this thread. (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,7410.0.html)

- Phil

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