Zowe Explorer causes a lot of rg.exe processes in the background

[zFernand0]

Describe the bug

rg.exe (a.k.a. ripgrep) is a text searching used by VSCode. It's great for searching configuration related to Zowe Explorer in the settings.json file. However, we might be overdoing it a bit.
Things might get better with the migration to LocalStorage (see #2281 and #2304), but until then, ZE might be causing some slowness on people's machines since it locks up the terminal for a few moments. From personal experience, it can cause close to a 2-3 minute delay for a command that takes often takes less than 10 seconds to run.

C:\USER\GitHub\zowe\zowe-cli\packages\imperative\web-help>t npm run build

time 0:2:52.65 (172.65s total)

To Reproduce

Perform any of the following actions on ZE:

• When the extension activates (we standardize settings)
• > Zowe Explorer: Refresh Zowe Explorer (same as above)
• Delete/Hide/Add profiles
• Doing a Search/Filter on datasets, USS, Jobs
• Basically anything that will touch your settings.json file

Expected behavior

1. Either reduce the amount of settings access and modification by caching all updates and doing them on deactivation, OR
2. Leverage the LocalStorage capabilities as soon as practicable (assuming it's more efficient) 😋

Screenshots

FYI, this is what it looks like with our first vNext pre-release

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Zowe Explorer Version: 2.11 (coming-soon)
• (Optional) Zowe CLI Version: N/A
• (Optional) Are you using Secure Credential Store? N/A

Additional context

Link to similar issue:

• what is rg.exe，it takes up much source microsoft/vscode#51948

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[zFernand0]

After testing all permutations of the following items, I can safely say that this issue is no longer reproducible.

• VS Code: From 1.79.2 (May 2023), to 1.86.2 (January 2024)
• Zowe Explorer: From 2.10.0 (first version after Keytar replacement), to 2.14.1 (most recent) & v3.0.0-next.202402142205