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Hi!
I have been trying to learn some programming (c++) and as practice I wrote some code but everytime i run my .exe file (Those that run for a few minutes behind the scenes) Anti-malware service executable starts using high cpu (~78%-90% as reported by task manager) and if I terminate my app(?) the usage drops I suspect it's real time protection since I have tried turning it off for a short while and anti.... didn't use high cpu for the period and after turning it on it started doing it again.
So my question:
Can I do something about it?
(Such that windows let's the program do what it wants to without choking it to 1/3 the RTP turned off performance)
Thanks!
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Answer accepted by question author
Hi AA20IP,
I am Dave, I will help you with this.
This is a common problem when you are programming in Windows 10, create a new folder on your Desktop or somewhere else on your PC, then inside that create a folder for each of your programming projects.
Then in Defender, add that parent folder that contains all the programming projects to the Exclusion list
Then, Defender will not scan your newly created executables.
How to add the folder to the Exclusion list
Thanks that helped!
