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Every Wednesday my PC becomes so slow it is barely usable. It is the Windows Defender scans. I tried doing a hack to put it on a lower priority but my hands are tied by IT.

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Same. I had nearly full administrative privs on the laptop, yet I get "Access denied" trying to deprioritize the scan. We got new hardware recently, so we should be good until the scanners catch up and consume even more resources...

You basically have no control over it. I don't mind it doing a virus scan but could it do it out of hours.

People wonder why I don't run Windows outside of gaming and it because I don't really know what the system is doing anymore.

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