Windows 10: Does antimalware service executable and desktop window manager usually to take so much memory?

I was experiencing some lag so i decided to open task manager to see what was going on and i saw that antimalware service executable and desktop window manager taking so much memory. I was pretty confused and tried to fix it but most methods on youtube didn't fix it. Right now antimalware service executable and desktop window manager are 150 mb of memory but sometimes they take up to 400 mb of memory. Is there any way to avoid this?

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Antimalware Service Executable problem

I am still having the problem even with the latest prerelease build. The Antimalware Service Executable process is often running and taking a lot of CPU, disk and memory. The same The Antimalware Service Executable -> Windows Defender Service ...
Too often the PC (an I7 one, 8 GB EliteBook HP) is stuck and even the response of a keyboard entry is very slow!!

Any suggestions?

 

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 more memory than usual

May have no bearing on it at all, but want to point out in 6 months 1703 will go out of support. I'm sure you're aware you are a release behind, and when MS gets the bugs out soon, 2 releases behind. There have been fixes for memory leaks and such. And much more. Just advising.....





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