VS2019 making lots of temp folders in AppData\Local\Temp\ and running BackgroundDownload.exe from them

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This is a problem with VS2019 (previous versions didn't do this), it's making many different folders (with random names) in the AppData Temp folder and whenever the PC is idle for a few minutes its running the BackgroundDownload.exe from resources/app/ServiceHub/Services subfolder.

Picture of the search "BackgroundDownload.exe" in the Temp folder: View: https://i.imgur.com/8DCHGMx.png


The problem is:
1. each of those temp folder is ~160MB in size
2. I can't create the firewall rule for a program whose path is always changing.

Why is VS creating all these folders and how to prevent it?

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