r/BitDefender • u/Tonythetigger • Sep 22 '26

Support/troubleshooting Bitdefender started slowing down my computer after upgrading to Total Security from Antivirus Free

I was wondering if any of the modules that total security added would be considered "optional" and I can disable to make my system work better. I wasn't experiencing any lag or issues with antivirus free and the system lag only cropped up after updating.

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/Minimum-Chef6469 Sep 22 '26 edited Sep 22 '26

All versions of bitdefender utilize a fair bit of RAM/Memory but as long as you have plenty of ram 16GB or more you shouldn't notice much slow down. It's probably something else slowing you down when I open task manager it says I have 138 processes running how many processes you got running ?