Windows (phone) emulator 8.1/10 stuck at loading the OS

Question

I\'ve been trying to get the emulator to work for days. Previously I tried the Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator as well as the Windows 8.1 Simulator and both were stuck at loading

Answer 1

This worked for me:

1. Go to Windows Defender.
2. Add exclusion following path: "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XDE\YourEmulatorVersion"

YourEmulatorVersion - for example 10.0.14393.9