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Larry Ortiz5 said:I actually went ahead and disabled Windows Defender via the registry myself—not because it was hogging all my RAM, but honestly, I’ve always felt it’s a bit of a weak antivirus. Instead, I decided to run Avast Free alongside Malwarebytes... and man, it works perfectly. Definitely worth a shot if you're looking for a better setup.
It's all five. This low memory error has been haunting me for the last few days, and I can't figure out why. Did some buggy update hit this ridiculous Windows 10 build? Or did I pick up a virus somewhere? Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue.
Hey everyone, quick question regarding RAM. I've got a laptop running with 4GB of DDR3L, and I won't bore you with the full spec sheet since it’s mostly irrelevant here. The issue is that even with just three or four tabs open in Chrome, I get hit with a "low memory" error message telling me to close everything, save my work, and restart. I usually just force a reboot after a few seconds because, frankly, who has the patience? Now, I could easily toss in another 4GB for $50, which would probably fix the capacity issue, but I'm holding off on principle. A machine shouldn't be gasping for air with only a handful of browser tabs active; there's clearly a deeper glitch at play. When I pull up Task Manager to see what the culprit is, "Antimalware Service Executable" is absolutely devouring both my CPU and my memory. I tried playing detective and disabling certain tasks via Task Scheduler within Windows Defender, but nothing changed—the system still chokes. Windows 10 can be such a headache sometimes.
Has anyone else run into this specific mess, or does anyone have a real solution?
Thanks in advance.
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I ended up disabling Windows Defender through the Registry Editor, and suddenly everything is running smoothly. I turned everything back on afterward and the errors stopped, but I'm stuck in a bit of a dilemma—I don't exactly want to leave my system completely naked without any protection.