Windows 10: Antimalware Service Executable Uses 1 GB of RAM

Hello,


Can somebody help me. I noticed that my laptop crashes a lot recently. When I checked my Task Manager I saw that the Antimalware Service Executable uses 1 GB of RAM. I tried but I have no way to stop it. Now I am unable to use my laptop for work due to this. I searched and found that this is an on-going issue with Windows 10. I hope they would do something about it because it is affecting a lot of people like me who needs to work especially in this time of pandemic. Now I have no productivity and might risk losing my job because of this stubborn Windows Defender scan. I hope somebody can help me. Thank you.

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Antimalware Service Executable problem

I was having the same issue like for weeks on my HP Probook Ci5 12GB, the Antimalware Service Executable process was eating up massive CPU, DISK and RAM. After all the hard time I got searching the solution I finally landed on

this article which helped me.

 

Antimalware service executable using up to 6 GB of RAM

Two days ago I started noticing slowdowns when playing games and using other programs in the background and experienced a lot of crashes due to RAM just filling up. When i looked in the Task Manager i noticed that the Antimalware service executable was using
up to 6 GB of RAM on any given moment, sometimes less, but not less than 2.5GB. It was also sporadic. I would restart my PC and all would be fine for a few hours and then it just started eating up RAM again.

When looking into the problem i noticed I was not alone in this but all the suggestions I read and applied were not doing anything.

I tried putting an exclusion for MsMpEng.exe, it did nothing.

I tried the Task Scheduler tip that i read on the support forums. It did nothing.

I tried editing the registry with a tip i read on the support forum. It did nothing.

I really need help with this because it's not only tampering with my games, but with my work also seeing as we are all in a similar situation worldwide and having 98% of my ram taken up is a tad bit annoying.

 

Antimalware Service Executable & Cortana Using Too much ram

My laptop has 64-Bit Operating System with 4 GB RAM. Most of the RAM is used by Antimalware Service Executable & Cortana which are 70 MB and 40 MB respectively. Usually RAM usage(Memory in Task Manager) is more than 40 % even if I am not using any software.
My friend said that RAM usage must be below 20 %. How to reduce this usage?

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