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Discussions tagged with 'program usage' on WindowsForum.com cover how Windows components and background processes interact with installed applications. A recurring theme is the behavior of MsMpEng, the Windows Defender antimalware service, which may scan multiple programs simultaneously during boot, causing high disk usage and system sluggishness. Users share observations from Task Manager and Resource Monitor to diagnose such issues. The tag focuses on troubleshooting unexpected program loading, resource consumption, and performance impacts related to Windows system services and user-installed software.
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    Windows 10 MsMpEng running all my apps at once on boot

    Since installing the Windows 10 Anniversary update, booting has been slow and the PC is sluggish for a while. As soon as I could get Task Manager open I saw C: had 100% utilisation. I ran Resource Monitor and saw that MsMpEng apparently had a long list of my installed programs running at the...
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    • 100 percent anniversary app management boot cpu usage diagnostics high utilisation msmpeng performance program usage resource monitor slow boot slow pc software conflict system performance system resources task manager troubleshooting update issues windows 10
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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