Windows 10 Defender

[Jp42nca]

 

Just completed a pc build and I have Windows 10 (Home 64-bit) everything ran great, still does except for one thing. Windows Defender seems to be constantly running. Go to task manager and its running at 6-7%. I have Corsair iCUE software and my total core package is running at 35-36 degrees celsius. It use to run at 27-28. Fans run for quite awhile before shutting off, I have Norton Anti virus software and it has been working great. Ever since I did the new Windows 10 update now my fans are running at high levels and Windows Defender is running most of the time. Can I shut it off as long as I have Norton running? If so how do you do it? Any ideas what's happening here? Thanks for reading, hope I can get some clarity here. I am not a gamer, I do real estate photography and use Lr & Ps in my work. I also don't surf the web and open up sites I don't know, no porn either. 

[Blai5e]

17 minutes ago, Jp42nca said:

Just completed a pc build and I have Windows 10 (Home 64-bit) everything ran great, still does except for one thing. Windows Defender seems to be constantly running. Go to task manager and its running at 6-7%. I have Corsair iCUE software and my total core package is running at 35-36 degrees celsius. It use to run at 27-28. Fans run for quite awhile before shutting off, I have Norton Anti virus software and it has been working great. Ever since I did the new Windows 10 update now my fans are running at high levels and Windows Defender is running most of the time. Can I shut it off as long as I have Norton running? If so how do you do it? Any ideas what's happening here? Thanks for reading, hope I can get some clarity here. I am not a gamer, I do real estate photography and use Lr & Ps in my work. I also don't surf the web and open up sites I don't know, no porn either. 

If this happened after the Windows update, it's more than likely to be caused by the Antimalware Service used by Defender. Have a read of this article to review some fixes.

[Jp42nca]

Thanks for the link, I want to share what I found out. Mind you I'm techy to a point, no whiz by any means so this is what I think is going on from following the instructions in the link you provided. There was no scheduled maintenance for Windows Defender in Task Scheduler. In the link farther down it explained how to disable another way, tried that to no avail. Typed in "gpedit.msc' and a window popped up saying "Windows cannot find ' gpedit.msc '. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again". I tried it 3x's and same pop up. Then I googled how to disable Defender, many posts came up and after reading a few I found under Windows Security>Virus & Threat Protection you can turn off periodic scanning. It already was turned off because Norton took over. Guess I need to go into Norton and change scheduled maintenance, if it's possible. Funny thing is though I've been using this pc for about a month now & Norton has never done this before, sure it would run tasks at idle but it was silent, only lately its been running louder with higher cpu usage. I've been editing real estate images in Lr & Ps and saving large files and never once has it powered up like it does when Windows Defender is running (aka Norton). I built this pc specifically for photo editing. In short if it doesn't fire up using Lr & Ps heavily it shouldn't do it with a Norton scan. That's whats so puzzling. I tried to include some of my screen shots but it wouldn't upload, error message said -200 whatever that means. Screen grabs were only 1000kb's? Thanks again for you help, if anything else come to mind give me a shout.