The story goes that, whereas he was engaged on ThrottleStop, he seen a bug in Home windows Defender that causes it to occupy all seven {hardware} efficiency counters on the affected machines. It is not a bug within the {hardware} itself, as a result of should you manually emulate what Defender is doing, it does not have an effect on efficiency. The difficulty can apparently happen on boot or any time after that, and as soon as it happens, you will see a small however important drop in efficiency, significantly for multi-core apps.
Should you select, you may work round this by merely disabling Home windows Defender’s real-time safety. This can be a little bit of a large number as Microsoft actually does not need you doing that for apparent causes, however you may nonetheless do it in “Professional” variations with a gaggle coverage setting. Some tweakers and hardcore gamer varieties possible have Home windows Defender disabled already, and thus will not be affected by this concern.
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Should you’d relatively hold your real-time safety on however nonetheless need to repair the problem, properly, that is what Counter Management is for. Merely head over to TechPowerUp and obtain the app. If it is exhibiting “Defender” below Present standing if you launch it, click on “Reset Counters” and efficiency must be restored to regular. Should you do not need to need to mess with that each time you boot, you may as an alternative set up ThrottleStop model 9.5 or later and tick the “Home windows Defender Increase” possibility.
