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Antimalware Service Executable: hogging my resources at startup
Well, the thread says it all. Upon loging into Windows (either after powering on the PC or just using a restart), I can clearly see that the Gadgets take a long time to display on the desktop, even though, of course, the sidebar.exe process is loaded immediately. About a minute or two into the login session most of my RAM is occupied and the CPUs would often jump to more than 80% per core. This is annoying because during that time Windows is very unstable and if I try to run any program on my own (mostly the TV app and/or IE9) they most likely crash or freeze so I would have to kill the process in the Task Manager.
"Antimalware Service Executable" is responsible for this, and at first I thought this was either Windows Defender or Malicious Software Removal Tool activating upon each startup, but no, this is actually Security Essentials. I know that the leaked build of IE9 affects gadgets (that's a different issue) but I am quite sure that it doesn't have anything to do with MSE, because this has been happening across multiple Windows installations with different browsers (before IE9 I didn't use IE8 at all, often I would even turn off the feature).
Has anyone else experienced this? I've been searching around and did mostly see time-out errors for MSE, not something like this. Both MSE and my Windows are always fully updated (some solution just suggested updating lol)
Is there anything I can do to overcome this annoyance?