Windows 10: Antimalware Service Executable 80-100% SSD usage

This has been happening almost every day for the past 3 months. I have wiped my computer 4 freaking times now trying to fix this. I've done task scheduler, editing registry values, EVERY credible "fix" I could find yet this still does this too me. It runs between 100-350 MBps for hours on end. Running on 2x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSDs with the C: drive in Rapid Mode. There is ZERO reason this should be taking this many resources from a SSD MS!!! ZERO!

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Antimalware Service Executable Constant Disk Usage

Found a great article that will hopefully help you out.

See the link for steps to resolve with screenshots.

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/antimalwar...

 

Antimalware Service Executable High disk usage

Every time I start Windows, or open a program Antimalware Service Executable shoots up to 100% disk usage for an hour or more. This cripples my computer for an hour. I have a third party antivirus program on my computer (Bitdefender) and wish to permanently
and completely disable Antimalware Service Executable so I am no longer faced with this problem. How do I do that?

 

Antimalware Service Executable very high disk usage

For me, the Antimalware Service Executable still eats up my disk usage, but since the above suggestion made it so that it only happens while the machine is idle, that is okay for me. I haven't noticed any annoyance from it since.

(Of course, if I had programs running while not on the machine that also needed a lot of disk operations, the solution would not have worked for me, since then Antimalware Service Executable would interfere with those programs.)

If you are still experiencing problems, perhaps try disabling Antimalware Service Executable and the other service you mentioned (that I don't know) completely? Of course, that is assuming you can live with not having them.

(I don't think there is a way to change how much disk operations the program needs, so when it runs, it'll always have high disk usage if your disk is quite slow)