Windows Defender CPU Usage

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Maxentius180

Is there a way to forcefully reduce Defender's CPU usage? Now it is managing to slow down even one of my best computers, an Asus sporting a Ryzen 7 4800H. On an old laptop with a Haswell i5 also running Win10, I've always kept Defender disabled as it just makes the system run like a snail. I could disable it on the newer PC, but I'd rather leave it enabled.This is getting ridiculous. Task manager was showing it using 90% of the Ryzen CPU at startup and for a while after until I went into Virus & Threat Protection and turned it off. Excessive. The Asus computer runs Win10 Home 22h2, fully u

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