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I have a successful OpenVPN connection. But when it is connected all internet traffic flows through the OpenVPN tunnel which is very slow.

I can manually fix this on Windows with CMD prompt>

C:/> route change 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 mask 0.0.0.0

Once that is done all connections behave the way I want.

Is there a way to avoid the OpenVPN client from changing the default gateway, or to automate putting the default gateway back immediately after the connection is complete?

the default gateway is redirected because either the server uses

push "redirect-gateway def1"

or because the client config contains

redirect-gateway def1

If you don't control the server then you can overrule the server behaviour by adding to the client config file - this will skip ALL routes pushed by the VPN server.