I've had good luck disabling the internet when I need my work computer to run faster. Those "security" checks are optional, and it'll let you work offline. If

I've had good luck disabling the internet when I need my work computer to run faster. Those "security" checks are optional, and it'll let you work offline. If just logging filesystem interactions and whatnot for future upload is also slow then you're hosed, but at one place I worked every application too an extra several seconds to start up for some sort of remote program inspection, which is fine till the application is git, grep, or cd.