Windows 10: Guys from Redmond , dont bamboozle me ! Defender is resource hog!

Upon Windows 10 startup , Defender takes 100-200MB , in some time 600MB !!!? I dont want this RAM hog ! Fix this right away .

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Chrome hogging all resources

My Chrome(latest version) is hogging all resources, can having too many bookmarks, history, saved passwords, search engines etc cause chrome to hog all the PC resources?

 

Chrome hogging all resources

No, but extensions may.

Would help if you provided a screenshot of Task Manager Processes.

Take Screenshot in Windows 10

 

Windows Defender hogging resources and bogging down my computer

I had thought that perhaps some malware infected my computer and I open up task manager and the resources are being hogged by Windows Defender itself, which seems to be a bit of malware itself. Specifically something called Antimalware Service Executable.

I have read the other postings, and I don't want to get that far into my computer and mess it up. I don't want the usual list of stray URLs to follow and find that it doesn't really solve any problem. Also, I am sort of busy and I am actually using my computer
to do stuff, and not as a hobby in itself.

1. Can I just use task manager to to kill the Antimalware Service Executable, or do I risk really screwing things up?

2. How do you uninstall Windows Defender?

3. Recommendations on replacements?

4. Why is it 2018 and Microsoft is still putting out defective software? It is defective since it wasting my time figuring out what is happening and how to fix it. Computers in 2018 and going forward just need to work and not be a hobby in themselves.