How To Fix Antimalware Service Executable High Memory / CPU Usage on Windows 10

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4 жыл бұрын

Antimalware Service Executable High CPU usage and High Memory Usage is one of the most common problem with Windows 10 PC. If your computer is running slow because of high CPU usage or Meomory Usage by Antimalware Service Executable then you will be able to solve the problem by following the steps on this video.
You will be able to solve the problem of high CPU usage or Memory Usage by Antimalware Service Executable on windows 10 after changing the configuration as shown on this video.
This video will help you to Fix:
1) Antimalware Service Executable High Memory Usage on Windows 10
2) Antimalware Service Executable High CPU Usage on Windows 10
3) Disable Antimalware Service Executable on Windows 10

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@IntrovertMotors 4 жыл бұрын

My task manager said, If I can’t beat them, join them

@masteralan4530 4 жыл бұрын

underrated

@Robert_777 3 жыл бұрын

shahhahaahaha

@caterpillar8700 3 жыл бұрын

@@meat5486 dislike. Not working

@SQUAREV2 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@tasmaikeni 3 жыл бұрын

Ha good one mate :P

@lbaconyt 2 жыл бұрын

Y'know, there's no better feeling than a tech tutorial working first try. Thanks, man.

@CamoEye Жыл бұрын

@greetingsyoungpadawan4341 Жыл бұрын

sadly didnt work for me ;-;

@jirikurto3859 Жыл бұрын

@@greetingsyoungpadawan4341 Didn't work for me either.

@UgaGeguga 3 жыл бұрын

My windows defender: hipitty hopitty your cpu speed is now my property

@divassnathh8699 2 жыл бұрын

@SAMEER_99 2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@FangYuan1164 2 жыл бұрын

Kinda same lol

@MonolithCOP Жыл бұрын

Short and to the point, excellent video.

@CovenantPurple 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I recently upgraded my mother's PC and this fix saved her old PC so we could gift it to a coworker. Worked like a charm!

@softaim. 3 жыл бұрын

mine was using 89% off my ram lmao

@ilyesadam9441 3 жыл бұрын

mine is using 115

@arjunsubash18 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@IceWotor 3 жыл бұрын

@@ilyesadam9441 how

@ilyesadam9441 3 жыл бұрын

@@IceWotor now it's 135 and sometimes 165 :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

@farishakimi1652 3 жыл бұрын

Mine using 75% lol

@JODOUBLENY 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 Everyone was trying to tell you really complex ways to do it when you could just change the settings in the app like this 😎

@razorgarf 3 жыл бұрын

feels odd that Microsoft bogs your system down on only this specific file, this doesn't feel right

@squarewheel9113 3 жыл бұрын

It's part of Windows defender. It's purpose is to, when the device is not in use, monitor all activity.

@cheifh2o18 3 жыл бұрын

That’s the same thing I was thinking

@jinrex2445 2 жыл бұрын

@@squarewheel9113 bruh its still going while im gaming is bullshit

@threadbreaker5851 2 жыл бұрын

@@squarewheel9113 so if im doing something then it'll take up less Memory :O or am i understanding it wrong

@RyanElliott2005 2 жыл бұрын

It's not that big of a deal if you have 16 gigs of ram.

@BenBartolome 2 жыл бұрын

okay.... that helped a bit.. it was 363 mb 23% ram usage, it went to 195-220mb, so im gonna give this video a like :D Thanks bro

@lazibrah6943 2 жыл бұрын

ya mine was at 600mb

@BenBartolome 2 жыл бұрын

@@lazibrah6943 thats acrazy high number!

@doominance Жыл бұрын

@@BenBartolome prob like 700-775 mb thank god i have i7 but i had 8gb ram

@viktorapostolov4932 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so so much. Before that this antimalware was taking something like 480 MB from the memory. And now it is taking less than 50 MB! My fps just boost with 30 TF.

@ragnaroksangel 2 жыл бұрын

I attempted all the things techbros have said to do around the net to disable it... It fucking DOUBLED resource usage

@lukastaken 2 жыл бұрын

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@eddoesnotexist 2 жыл бұрын

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@makadoxvsdk9530 2 жыл бұрын

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@LuckyAJC 2 жыл бұрын

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@cemsengul16 2 жыл бұрын

Somehow this guide made no difference at all on my computer. I think Microsoft may have patched this solution with an update.

@NotMonofon 4 жыл бұрын

Its decreased but not significant, do you know why? And which other file should i exclude?

@tytolley2645 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Holy crap thank you. This was a great tutorial that instantly remedied my issue.

@RapidReaperJohn Жыл бұрын

This worked great at first but a few days later it's eating CPU again even though the exclusion is still listed. Could it be some windows update maybe getting around the exclusion?

@cosmonaut999 Жыл бұрын

This is immensely helpful, thank you!

@daveyjoneslocker4703 Жыл бұрын

I had 35% usage with no start up apps while I was sitting on the desktop doing nothing with 16gb of ram. This brought it down to 25%. Still probably going to upgrade my ram because I like to have a lot of stuff open.

@captbzj6128 3 жыл бұрын

thx , Would you be able to go over other applications witch have this issue or perhaps a top list of poorly optimized (relevant) applications.

@AjaySingh-xd4nz 3 жыл бұрын

a lot of options I tried through different videos, none worked. Microsoft is determined to not let us have a good experience. Every passing days, my plan to switch to ubuntu is getting stronger. That is the only end to this problem.

@DrJams 3 жыл бұрын

I went back to windows 7 and will stay on it for as many years as possible. Not buying new hardware when it was fine before. Awful laggy user experience with 10.

@kr6to 2 жыл бұрын

I just REALLY wish that "Windows Defender" should not exist

@aserel2 2 жыл бұрын

Finally an easy remedy. Thank You!!! 😘

@theboy2777 Жыл бұрын

Thank you man, i know this video is old but ive done this tutorial and now my valorant runs buttery smooth. before it was getting these tiny tiny micro stutters, but this made it buttery smooth

@KEEVVY 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t know if this still works as to me was eating even more after restart

@ritwik3023 3 жыл бұрын

it will take everything right after u boot up windows but for me it was just like 10% cpu usage

@mccaeanderson9002 3 жыл бұрын

Same thing here, man. It would be at 70 mb's before I did this now it ranges between 200-230 mb's..

@ProGamingProphecy 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I went from 40% down to 22%, looks like I still have more work to do.

@rezz1er Жыл бұрын

It is ok to have high cpu just Google "is it safe for laptop or computer to run at 100%"

@PumpedAaron 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Hope it works!

@wax372electric5 Жыл бұрын

You're a life saver. Thank you.

@vel306 10 ай бұрын

i have an ssd, so it looks a little different, is it the same as MsMpRes.dll.mui ?

@NotDrip 3 жыл бұрын

to be honest this antimalware service started to reach 100%cpu after I ran a full scan on my computer from windows defender and after it finished it went to 0 so thats my problem idk if someone has another problem or not but for me it was from the scan

@domicadom8865 2 жыл бұрын

Can someone explain how much usage should be on my laptop when i turn it on. Cause am confused why antimalwer service using 196,1MB of my memory and winodws explorer 89,8Mb

@JODOUBLENY 3 жыл бұрын

It just turned back on after restarting

@kingvamp4772 3 жыл бұрын

what did it do

@brankelly1921 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, this helped me quite a lot, my gaming laptop fan was running like fak. It's completely stopped now. Liked and Subbed :)

@captainpasta901 2 жыл бұрын

It's a gaming laptop it was meant to be loud my boy don't melt your laptop plastic lol

@domtron1773 2 жыл бұрын

having a gaming laptop you just gotta get use to the fan a lot of heat in a small area needs good flow

@AmishMicrowave 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much my friend. I can verify as of 05/24/2022 this still works and it's worked like a charm, I dropped roughly 20% memory usage.

@fgghhydi Жыл бұрын

5/24 Is my birthday

@ShubhTheOcean Жыл бұрын

@@fgghhydi happy birthday

@md.bacchumia641 3 жыл бұрын

Brothers this video is very helpful. Thank you mouch .

@hundun5604 9 ай бұрын

Speaking of high cpu/mem. Firefox is using 2 to 3GB. Is that normal for a normal user? This pc I use doesn't have much mem, so reducing it use is preferable.

@oliversinkovic567 3 жыл бұрын

What should I do? When I open the file "Windows Defender", I have some 3 files there, but the MsMpEng isn'T anywhere in those

@chidambaranadig4776 3 жыл бұрын

Same case here

@MahmoudAmari1 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe bcz u selected folder instead of file? Cuz thats what happened to me

@gimonn2814 3 жыл бұрын

@@MahmoudAmari1 thanks

@williamellerd8395 3 жыл бұрын

Type the file name into the box at the bottom and hit enter. About half way through typing in the name of the file, it appeared in the drop down and allowed me to select it.

@dawsonrpowell 9 ай бұрын

Awesome! Between this, disabling startup apps, and disabling Edge background extensions, I went from 4.1GB memory usage idle to 2.9GB.

@nikhilpandey-ht4mr 9 ай бұрын

How to do that

@xscitobor1233 2 ай бұрын

Can you tell me how you disable Edge background extensions?

@2weaky_702 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was eating up all my ram and making my computer really slow.

@erg7930 Жыл бұрын

Should't I worry that the Antimalware Defender is working so much tho?? Like I'm sure there was something causing that problem

@mohamedelmoutaoukil2572 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, I appreciate your help 😍

@tylerohl2368 Жыл бұрын

Ive tried 3 different options, restarted my computer like 20 times, its still there, its at 60 percent memory usage, and help?

@mohamedkaddah8668 29 күн бұрын

Cant find add an exclusion in the exclusion page any help?

@lashaaa5363 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend, its volume did not disappear at all, but a big difference happened. For those who are reading this, I recommend this video, I promise it will help you

@tomchisone 3 жыл бұрын

MsMpEng doesnt exist inside the Windows Defender directory. Infact, it only contains 2 sub-directories and 5 .dll files :/ not sure what to do from here

@2000thewazup 3 жыл бұрын

In your task manager, right-click on the Antimalware Service Executable and click open file location. Just copy and paste the address when you are adding the exclusion

@LikhitK 2 жыл бұрын

@@2000thewazup Thanks . That helped

@orbitalonyx 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you bro I was freaking out I didn’t want to deal with this bro thank yo

@heisenberg1372 Жыл бұрын

I've been worrying about my slow pc for about month and you saved me

@ybk6858 Жыл бұрын

ayo my man aprecciate the quick and easy tutorial. even tho I am sporting 32 gb i still didnt like that it took like 240 mb all the time

@abdiwahabnadhi4756 2 жыл бұрын

What did we just closed ?. What was that file we closed for?. Always we solve one just to find another problem coming up.

@jasonfan3931 4 жыл бұрын

this is for exclude from virus scan. not for exclude from running.

@skalo1840 3 жыл бұрын

wdym does it stop using a lot of your as time goes by?? And how much does it last

@teodordacau973 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks to you mate!

@bollytolly9 Жыл бұрын

Trick worked for 4 days now whatever i do antimalware starting when i restart cant end this process too (access is denied message comes) any other way to stop this?

@snoobtub7492 2 жыл бұрын

I was so happy when yt autofilled my search about this video

@dickychristian9021 3 жыл бұрын

does this work on 8.1 windows?

@TheRockRocknRoll 2 жыл бұрын

didnt work for me... still the same as before

@abinash7376 2 жыл бұрын

is there any disadvantage if we disable it?

@adityawinocita5049 4 жыл бұрын

thanks mate, it really help me

@A2MTech 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that!

@ff-rs3ji 3 жыл бұрын

@@A2MTech question why is youre likes and dislikes hiden?

@whatashame.6319 2 жыл бұрын

thank you, took my memory usage from 20% to 3%.

@DoubleMinority 2 жыл бұрын

It went from 90% to 30% for me

@ap4702 2 жыл бұрын

@@DoubleMinority u running on 1gb memory?

@Adam-ub4jt 2 жыл бұрын

Greatly appreciated man, this helped immensely. Keep up the good work, thank you.

@pinomugo8960 2 жыл бұрын

obviously it doesn't work! the use at 90% of the cpu certainly does not depend on scanning a single file! you are ridiculous!

@matke1218 2 жыл бұрын

Please help i didn't have that file before now i have is it radnom or something else i don't see anything that will show me i have a virus everything is perfect

@iennternet 2 жыл бұрын

It did not work for me, after restarting the computer I still have the same issue.

@iennternet 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrdagoodboy sure

@rakinduamarabandu9078 3 жыл бұрын

I tried doing this and it works!!! thanks bro hugeee help

@UmarFarooq-of2ku 2 жыл бұрын

Does this increase security threats?

@JodiGeo 2 жыл бұрын

Slow performance? More like constantly causing my computer to crash

@therealmido. Жыл бұрын

TYSM! my pc was so slow but this fixed it!

@ediu85 3 жыл бұрын

I experienced high memory usage from 600 to 700 mb. It's now down to 136 mb. So obviously it helped. Thnx.

@nijins7827 3 жыл бұрын

Too large 😂

@Siddharth_SuS 2 жыл бұрын

@[ 桂木優 ]KᗩTᔕᑌᖇᗩGI rn mines at 1.5GB, i thought it was normal.

@uniqueyroasts 2 жыл бұрын

Mine was running at 1,186 MB OF RAM Ram - 8 GB

@abhishekpawar5126 2 жыл бұрын

mine is running at 150mb and I thought that's too much lol

@binitoooo 2 жыл бұрын

@[ 桂木優 ]KᗩTᔕᑌᖇᗩGI that's what she said

@vanishadi 11 ай бұрын

pregunta, hay consecuencias o daños al hacer esto?

@carolgowin2459 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 😘

@ninjan_259 Жыл бұрын

this is a great video, he go very slowly so you can follow along

@chriscorke2313 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, solved the problem, thanks

@slayerdude212 3 жыл бұрын

i did this and it gave me 15 percent cpu usage now i reversed it now i get 1 percent use before it was 0

@Francis_Nerizon 2 жыл бұрын

Why do you need to use this me I go to task manger and the it didn't take any of my CPU

@riky5709 2 жыл бұрын

its higher now idek why and its not going down if i set it back to normal

@DethOfDrgnz 2 жыл бұрын

I did exclude this file but it didn't seem to help much it's still using the most memory of anything on my laptop 234mb

@justinz2561 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a downside to ending it?

@satisfiedjelly 3 жыл бұрын

Weird my file doesn’t show up? Even searching for it it’s not there???

@arggaming9734 3 жыл бұрын

Bro will it be dangerous by turning of this?

@kdplayzedits4761 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

@TherealKoolKatRL 7 ай бұрын

Great tutorial I was having troubles with this when playing fort nite it was lowering my framed so thank you

@northo1964 3 жыл бұрын

Worked for me 😀

@nirhawk 2 жыл бұрын

why does it happen only on some pc and not in all ? i have 2 laptop and 2 desktops but it happen only on my asus laptop, why ?

@xar8639 Жыл бұрын

Is it really working for you all? Mine was 145 MB now it is a constant 175 MB on Win 10pro. I have tried rescheduling does not seem to work either.

@voidfb6170 Жыл бұрын

Props to you my man thank you so much

@panda_kk777 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! i was scared i got a high cpu i thought it was gonna ruin my computer so i had to fix it, i tried this and it worked ! from 90 usage to 2!!! thank you very much ! earned a subscriber

@A2MTech Жыл бұрын

You're absolutely welcome! I'm glad I could help to fix your concerns about the high CPU usage.

@RaccoonOnTimin 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@nixonprod 4 жыл бұрын

It's work with the cpu not the ram

@kingpeter6273 Жыл бұрын

Doesn't work. 200mb before and still the same after fix.

@quezy999 2 жыл бұрын

HELP ME PLZ when i go to windows security and try to add an exclusion it says ''you don't have the proper permissions to view this page'' how can i fix this PLZ HELP PLZZZZ

@thecatcontent350 2 жыл бұрын

run it as administrator

@SoydeCubaCompay 3 жыл бұрын

after having followed the instructions., my memory usage was 424.2 MB, then has dropped to 144.2 MB., I think it is still high compared to yours 48.0MB.

@chisei261 3 жыл бұрын

mine is 800

@tomasgomez1906 3 жыл бұрын

Mine is 1890...

@darrenjackson8854 3 жыл бұрын

to everyone saying theres is so high, you probably have more than 8gb of ram

@kenonacionales9910 3 жыл бұрын

kudos! this really help us a lot.. more power sir!

@capqur 5 ай бұрын

Didn't work for me... Is there any other way? Mine is still 300mb idle -.-

@gemi_u_u344 2 жыл бұрын

I done but still no difference can u help?

@sethstewart5428 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't notice any difference in my ram usage after doing this

@mrducky179 3 жыл бұрын

@@7euphorian901 he didnt?

@kr6to 2 жыл бұрын

Um i did, it was going down and down, so it was 100mb now it go downed 42 mb and sometimes 50mb

@Rejaaa__ 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@TheMetroVault 4 жыл бұрын

legend!!!

@bbvukovic1107 7 ай бұрын

Didnt work

@mdashiquealam2002 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much sir

@pricedisland 2 жыл бұрын

much love brother! thanks

@lucecita007 3 жыл бұрын

it doesnt allowed me and even closed another exclusion I had, it even dissappeared

@DrDistrion 4 жыл бұрын

can we end task the antimalware? will it cause any problems?

@lightwinglk7597 4 жыл бұрын

You can't do that. It will say access denied

@wezzil 3 жыл бұрын

You can you have to go to Microsoft security but you have to turn on the thing at the bottom where it says allow pepole to changes files or something like that I don’t feel like looking for what it says but you should be able to find it👍

@jokolo9554 3 жыл бұрын

Can i Just abandon it on task manager and shut down pc

@Kuya_Dude 3 жыл бұрын

I cant fix it because my pc stuck and cant move even i restarted it i can only open task manager

@andyyuen9551 3 жыл бұрын

how to stop the window defender, it still takes my ram.

@threadbreaker5851 2 жыл бұрын

You dont want to do that.

@matthewyap7242 3 жыл бұрын

I can't add the file to exclusion

@TheOnlineScrub 4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I started making money online recently and this problem came up. I wasn't able to use my computer and do any work. I tried the solution Microsoft recommended and it did not make a difference. This worked first try! THANK YOU THANK YOU

@A2MTech 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!