[Tutorial] Disable Defender on Windows 10 eating up Memory while folding!

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[Tutorial] Disable Defender on Windows 10 eating up Memory while folding!

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This was driving me mad, mem usage out 32GB was 7GB, after doing this, its down to 4GB memory usage!

Make sure, that the tamper protection is disabled, then run this twice as admin, then restart.

Windows/Microsoft Defender Disable.bat at main . TairikuOokami/Windows . GitHub

https://github.com/TairikuOokami/Window ... isable.bat

I performed the procedures to disable Defender as follows:
1 - I disabled all Defender functions
2 - I disabled Tamper Protection
3 - I ran the command MpCmdRun.exe -resetplatform on:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Platform\XXXX.XXX
https://www.howtogeek.com/717570/how-to ... indows-10/
4 - I ran the reg file with the commands:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows Defender]
"DisableAntiSpyware" = dword: 00000001
"DisableRealtimeMonitoring" = dword: 00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows Defender \ Real-Time Protection]
"DisableBehaviorMonitoring" = dword: 00000001
"DisableOnAccessProtection" = dword: 00000001
"DisableScanOnRealtimeEnable" = dword: 00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ SecurityHealthService]
"Start" = dword: 00000004
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If you have a problem trying to disable windows 10 defender let me know.

I searched hell and high water for do get this DISABLED.
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It's never a good idea to disable your anti virus ... :roll:
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toTOW wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 6:12 pm It's never a good idea to disable your anti virus ... :roll:
sorry, ltterally spyware "defender" is for chumps :/. any anti crap is for chumps. ppl should know what they have on thier pc. 🙂 atleast i do.
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I only have about 4GB in use while folding, even with Defender enabled. Maybe I use less memory because I'm a chump? :mrgreen:
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BobWilliams757 wrote: Tue May 02, 2023 12:23 am I only have about 4GB in use while folding, even with Defender enabled. Maybe I use less memory because I'm a chump? :mrgreen:
? is why have it? unless your downloading files u shouldn't be downloading 😒
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There are more than enough sinister redirects, hijack attempts, etc out there to warrant anti virus and spyware protection IMHO. Besides, memory is cheap, and I buy it to use it. You can free up memory by giving up use, but in the long run it's not going to increase folding throughput much if at all in most cases.

I have 16G of memory in my system, and rarely even come close to using it all. To worry about it when there is no system impact is like buying a 400HP vehicle but driving it where you never use more than 200HP.... it just doesn't make much sense to me.


I remember back in the DOS days where using high memory and such was a need for a power user, which I was at the time, so it was worth the trouble of a few configuration lines at startup as well as sometimes changing some dip switches to find settings that would share and work across hardware. But these days it's way easier and cheaper to just spend a few bucks more on memory and be done with it.
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BobWilliams757 wrote: Sat May 06, 2023 12:48 am There are more than enough sinister redirects, hijack attempts, etc out there to warrant anti virus and spyware protection IMHO. Besides, memory is cheap, and I buy it to use it. You can free up memory by giving up use, but in the long run it's not going to increase folding throughput much if at all in most cases.

I have 16G of memory in my system, and rarely even come close to using it all. To worry about it when there is no system impact is like buying a 400HP vehicle but driving it where you never use more than 200HP.... it just doesn't make much sense to me.


I remember back in the DOS days where using high memory and such was a need for a power user, which I was at the time, so it was worth the trouble of a few configuration lines at startup as well as sometimes changing some dip switches to find settings that would share and work across hardware. But these days it's way easier and cheaper to just spend a few bucks more on memory and be done with it.
i dont have enough time time read that, sheep in the wind... maybe tomorrow.
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