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

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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 года назад

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

@masteralan4530 4 года назад

underrated

@carlossainz_55 4 года назад

shahhahaahaha

@caterpillar8700 3 года назад

@@meat5486 dislike. Not working

@SQUAREV2 3 года назад

Hahahaha

@tasmaikeni 3 года назад

Ha good one mate :P

@lbaconyt 2 года назад

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

@CamoEye Год назад

@greetingsyoungpadawan4341 Год назад

sadly didnt work for me ;-;

@jirikurto3859 Год назад

@@greetingsyoungpadawan4341 Didn't work for me either.

@UgaGeguga 3 года назад

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

@divassnathh8699 3 года назад

@SAMEER_99 2 года назад

LOL

@FangYuan1164 2 года назад

Kinda same lol

@cemsengul16 2 года назад

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

@MonolithCOP 2 года назад

Short and to the point, excellent video.

@razorgarf 4 года назад

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

@squarewheel9113 3 года назад

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

@cheifh2o18 3 года назад

That’s the same thing I was thinking

@jinrex2445 3 года назад

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

@threadbreaker5851 3 года назад

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

@RyanElliott2005 3 года назад

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

@CovenantPurple 2 года назад

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!

@BenBartolome 3 года назад

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 года назад

ya mine was at 600mb

@BenBartolome 2 года назад

@@lazibrah6943 thats acrazy high number!

@doominance 2 года назад

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

@AjaySingh-xd4nz 3 года назад

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 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@viktorapostolov4932 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@lukastaken 3 года назад

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@eddoesnotexist 2 года назад

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@makadoxvsdk9530 2 года назад

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@LuckyAJC 2 года назад

@@ragnaroksangel lol

@JODOUBLENY 3 года назад

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 😎

@softaim. 3 года назад

mine was using 89% off my ram lmao

@ilyesadam9441 3 года назад

mine is using 115

@arjunsubash18 3 года назад

Same

@IceWotor 3 года назад

@@ilyesadam9441 how

@ilyesadam9441 3 года назад

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

@farishakimi1652 3 года назад

Mine using 75% lol

@SandyCheeks1896 2 года назад

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.

@KEEVVY 3 года назад

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

@ritwik3023 3 года назад

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

@mccaeanderson9002 3 года назад

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

@dawsonrpowell Год назад

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

@nikhilpandey-ht4mr Год назад

How to do that

@xscitobor1233 5 месяцев назад

Can you tell me how you disable Edge background extensions?

@JODOUBLENY 3 года назад

It just turned back on after restarting

@gettingchodaily 3 года назад

what did it do

@ediu85 3 года назад

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

@nijins7827 3 года назад

Too large 😂

@Siddharth_SuS 2 года назад

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

@uniqueyroasts 2 года назад

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

@abhishekpawar5126 2 года назад

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

@binitoooo 2 года назад

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

@jasonfan3931 4 года назад

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

@skalo1840 3 года назад

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

@sethstewart5428 4 года назад

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

@mrducky179 3 года назад

@@7euphorian901 he didnt?

@kr6to 3 года назад

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

@Rejaaa__ 3 года назад

Same

@NotDrip 4 года назад

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

@AmishMicrowave 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

5/24 Is my birthday

@ShubhTheOcean Год назад

@@fgghhydi happy birthday

@JodiGeo 3 года назад

Slow performance? More like constantly causing my computer to crash

@erg7930 Год назад

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

@theboy2777 Год назад

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

@ybk6858 Год назад

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

@tomchisone 3 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

@@2000thewazup Thanks . That helped

@brody3953 3 года назад

Mine was using 1.2 GB of ram. Now it is using 100MB. Thanks!

@ricardopattinson9318 3 года назад

1.2? Lol. Mine was using 230mb

@ProGamingProphecy 2 года назад

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

@rezz1er Год назад

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

@SoydeCubaCompay 3 года назад

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 года назад

mine is 800

@tomasgomez1906 3 года назад

Mine is 1890...

@darrenjackson8854 3 года назад

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

@uniqueyroasts 2 года назад

Thanks It Went From 1.2 GB Of Ram Usage To 250MB

@yanezhekov5025 2 года назад

250 is still too much man

@uniqueyroasts 2 года назад

@@yanezhekov5025 But Still it went from WHOOPING 1.2 Gigs to 250MB

@karanjain8568 2 года назад

@@uniqueyroasts But it's still too much man

@uniqueyroasts 2 года назад

@@karanjain8568 I know, Now I re-installed windows now it's 112MB

@karanjain8568 2 года назад

@@uniqueyroasts But....... ItS sTiLl hIgH tHo 😂

@TheOnlineScrub 4 года назад

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 года назад

Glad it helped!

@nixonprod 4 года назад

It's work with the cpu not the ram

@sobhanrajabi8294 3 года назад

the fact that the video has hided likes and dislikes makes me want to close immediately !

@masterdef2209 3 года назад

What you talking bout

@sobhanrajabi8294 3 года назад

@@masterdef2209 Literally what i said.

@masterdef2209 3 года назад

@@sobhanrajabi8294 check the video a g a i n, also he warned about disabling real time protection why would he want to do that, also what gains would he have if he did this hes not making us instal anything so your comment makes no sense

@sobhanrajabi8294 3 года назад

@@masterdef2209 if you can't understand that your self I can't help you with that im sorry. By the way, 12 other people believe differently.

@masterdef2209 3 года назад

@@sobhanrajabi8294and 1,5k think the other way around, and he enabled likes idiot check again

@omdamahe Год назад

Dropped form using 100% to 10-15% and completes full PC scan much faster Thank You

@Adam-ub4jt 2 года назад

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

@pinomugo8960 2 года назад

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

@whatashame.6319 2 года назад

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

@DoubleMinority 2 года назад

It went from 90% to 30% for me

@ap4702 2 года назад

@@DoubleMinority u running on 1gb memory?

@TheRockRocknRoll 2 года назад

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

@md.bacchumia641 3 года назад

Brothers this video is very helpful. Thank you mouch .

@Yoisho_my 3 года назад

his Windows defender: 'use around 40mb ram' mine: 'haha 500mb ram go brrrr'

@radioimmunoelectrophoresis9831 3 года назад

600 for me like what the hell

@Samir10010 3 года назад

it's so annoyiung, I have 91 background programs using 1-50mb, wtf is wrong with windows.

@UwU-dx5hu 3 года назад

@@Samir10010 yeah windows sucks

@mezff8062 3 года назад

Mine was 192 mb !!

@gemi_u_u344 3 года назад

U guys are lucky mine taking 1 GB lmao

@saikarthik559 3 года назад

I followed ur steps exactly and i find a difference of 30% decrease in memory usage. First it was 70 but now it is 40 precent

@ZION73082 2 года назад

Fan-chan: I AM SPEED! 😱🤯☠️

@iennternet 2 года назад

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

@iennternet 2 года назад

@@mrdagoodboy sure

@oliversinkovic567 3 года назад

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 года назад

Same case here

@MahmoudAmari1 3 года назад

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

@gimonn2814 3 года назад

@@MahmoudAmari1 thanks

@williamellerd8395 3 года назад

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.

@lashaaa5363 2 года назад

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

@caturindrawananimation5288 3 года назад

I remember a virus using less memory than Windows Defender...

@gemi_u_u344 3 года назад

Lmao

@hemantbiswas8221 3 года назад

Before this it was using like 96-98mb of ram now thanks to you... It's using 200mb of ram.. 👌

@tasmaikeni 3 года назад

How? I think you did something wrong (Maybe)

@hemantbiswas8221 3 года назад

@@tasmaikeni maybe

@tasmaikeni 3 года назад

@@hemantbiswas8221 Bruh I followed his steps and nothing happened

@hemantbiswas8221 3 года назад

@@tasmaikeni ok

@wellpdoclube 3 года назад

96 to 98 are good numbers, why did you edit this?

@brankelly1921 3 года назад

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 года назад

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

@domtron1773 2 года назад

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

@rgbd3542 Год назад

starts : 1:00

@slayerdude212 3 года назад

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

@kingpeter6273 Год назад

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

@Lil_GroceryBag Год назад

my issue wasn’t memory usuage, but soemtimes i would notice it spiking in task manager to 15-20 percent cpu usuage, and staying there for like 30 seconds. I can verify this works, anti malware service executable now sits att the bottom of my list!

@expert244 2 года назад

Me: Microsoft, why are you the way you are? Microsoft: DDDERRRRRDDUUURRRRRRRRRRAHHHHHHH!

@RapidReaperJohn Год назад

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?

@Sprxnt_1 Год назад

I tried this on 2 pc’s nothing worked 😊

@monddiktator2991 9 месяцев назад

Didn't work for me! Still a high memory

@simonkorica9467 5 месяцев назад

This garbage should get them in court. They made anti malware that acts just like the thing is supposed to protect against. Garbage company run by garbage people.

@snoobtub7492 2 года назад

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

@bbvukovic1107 10 месяцев назад

Didnt work

@tongueoutmc3373 3 года назад

its uses too much ram but still cant find and solve a single malware🤣🤣🤣

@Relyinglemming6 3 года назад

What happens if you just end the task??

@jyotipathak2270 3 года назад

Access denied

@toomanyblocks8448 3 года назад

better to watch on 1.25 speed

@xeyutipe 3 года назад

i watched on 2x speed. lol

@ninjan_259 Год назад

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

@sagarjha8156 2 года назад

It doesn't work for me..🤬.... And now the ASE is taking 350-570 MB of my total RAM..

@riky5709 2 года назад

did you find a solution

@justinz2561 2 года назад

Is there a downside to ending it?

@rakinduamarabandu9078 3 года назад

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

@stevelamborghini 2 года назад

It didn't change my memory at all

@andyyuen9551 3 года назад

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

@threadbreaker5851 3 года назад

You dont want to do that.

@aserel2 2 года назад

Finally an easy remedy. Thank You!!! 😘

@defuu101 2 года назад

damn it didn't work bro mine is still at 170MB

@Aether_Jeem 2 года назад

still does nothing 47% cpu usage and 2 gb ram memory I THINK ITS ABOUT TIME TO DOWNGRADE TO WINDOWS 8

@diegobrando7858 Год назад

i did everything and restarted my pc but nothing changed

@tytolley2645 Год назад

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

@zaraizara2794 3 года назад

It works. From 1.4GB drop to 140MB. From 45% ram drop to 25% ram Thanks.. 👍

@hoodmonkey5535 3 года назад

Bro antivirus be like "it's free real estate'

@GamerPRO-pj2zf 2 года назад

Nope its still on my taskbar ! is it possible to turn it off complety ?

@yami5974 2 года назад

nah you can't turn it off permanently 😂 But you can see a difference

@n0tarjav 3 года назад

just turn the real-time protection and you are done

@kwaza1421 3 года назад

my pc getting a virus :This is not fine

@marcusjnewtonz28 4 года назад

Let me save some people a ton of time. This works for VERY FEW people; there is no consistency, other than the overwhelming majority of people that it doesn't work for. What I was told by an IT person: just buy a 3rd party windows security program. I did, and I have my RAM back. AFTER watching 3-4 of these videos and failing each time. Try at your own risk.

@PureXtasy 4 года назад

what program did you get?

@marcusjnewtonz28 4 года назад

I was kind of lucky because the IT person I spoke about is my brother, but the long and short of it is, we disabled .system main which was a big culprit. Services executable is still there, but doesn’t use nearly as much disk usage anymore. I don’t even have an ssd and doing this helped tons. Good luck 👍

@alexisfairo 2 года назад

didn't work for me :(

@see7529 4 года назад

after doing this msmpeng using more ram

@Soul-qt8bp 4 года назад

More ram, but 0% CPU usage

@Azac12 3 года назад

@@Soul-qt8bp So if your trying to play a game that needs quite a bit of ram don't recommend this

@Soul-qt8bp 3 года назад

@@Azac12 The issue is already solved after the latest win 10 update (20 H2)

@Azac12 3 года назад

@@Soul-qt8bp I still have a bit of cpu being used but thats ok

@prajwalkumar8032 3 года назад

@@Soul-qt8bp No...

@pandae5657 3 года назад

I'm literally running around youtube asking: WHY TF IS THIS TAKING UP 100 PERCENT CPU?!? AND WHY TF IS THAT. Everytime I find a fix for one, another appears. Just gonna throw pc away.

@shameemjamal2187 3 года назад

Still facing same problem... Please help 😭

@TherealKoolKatRL 10 месяцев назад

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

@zakioshrimp9102 8 месяцев назад

This fix also works on windows 11 the UI is the same as windows 10 so it was an easy guide to follow

@Itooonn Год назад

Instead of actually lowering the memory of my computer, what happened was the opposite. My memory percentage was 40 but now i have 80.

@opienick 4 года назад

The exclusion doesn't work for me. What else can I try?

@Yash-km6fb 4 года назад

yes me too its not working

@lukestaa1082 4 года назад

Um maybe check your cpu and see if it has a good amount of thermal paste if not then you’ll have to get some

@cosmonaut999 Год назад

This is immensely helpful, thank you!

@averagegamer1725 2 месяца назад

I restarted my PC and it seemed to work for about 10 seconds and then it started spiking again. Back to square 1

@Bruhteek 2 года назад

watch in 1.75x speed. you are welcome

@Justin_Time_TOIT 2 года назад

DO NOT DO THIS!!! I did this and my pc had to be completely reinstalled.

@Sbe2000 2 года назад

nice lie

@Justin_Time_TOIT 2 года назад

@@Sbe2000 I'm not lying, I had to make a windows install usb to reinstall windows on my PC. My PC was in a infinite boot loop because windows got corrupted from doing this tutorial.

@Sbe2000 2 года назад

@@Justin_Time_TOIT well my pc is fixed my cpu was sooo high now it's fixed the problem is from you dude for me the pc is really good right now