Windows 10: Disabling Windows Defender By (Almost) Any Means Necessary

I just want to disable windows defender. No registry editing or group policy editing have worked for me in the last year, and I'm tired of trying old tricks. I just don't want to see the damned thing in my task manager anymore destroying my memory usage and I'm willing to nearly brick my PC at this point to be rid of it. Not sure what has happened to computer freedom and please excuse the conspiracy theorist in me believing its some form of spyware but it's insane to me that disabling it isn't as easy as clicking "disable". I'll even use sketchy third party software at this point or do anything short of slamming my laptop against the wall just to not have my measly 8GB of ram devoured by this process. Also I'm sorry if there is a million threads already open all this but I'm pretty sure Microsoft has buried them because all I ever come across is people saying to edit policies and such. Thanks, in advance.



TL;DR I want to disable windows defender and all subsequent processes by any means necessary other than possibly taking a hammer to my laptop. (With lack of options I might consider this.)

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How to disable windows defender for long time?

Hi Andrew,

If I understand you correctly you are willing to disable Windows Defender from your system. I would like to know few more things to understand the issue in a better way.

• Why are you trying to disable Windows Defender? Are you planning to install any third party security software?
• From where you have followed the steps to disable Windows defender using registry?
• Are you logged in as Administrator?

The steps which you have mentioned to disable Windows Defender using gpedit.msc is correct. If you are unable to disable it then you may do that by stopping the service responsible for Windows Defender. Here are steps which you may follow to perform the
same task.

• Press Windows key + R to open run box.
• Type services.msc and hit enter.
• There should be 2 services: Windows Defender Service
  and Windows Defender Network14.
• Right click on each and press stop.

If you will stop the service responsible for Windows Defender then it will not run till it is stopped. Do get back to us with all the information required and result of proposed suggestion. We will be happy to assist you further.

Regards,

 

How to disable windows defender for long time?

Dear ramesh,

I too agree with Farah in that the options to start, stop Windows Defender are not clickable. There should be a way to stop the WD

 

Windows Defender disables itself

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are facing the issue on Windows defender.

I will certainly help you with this.

I would like to inform you that if you have other antivirus on your computer, so Windows defender automatically

disable itself.

If you don’t have any other antivirus on computer then I would suggest you to check the services for Windows defender:

Steps:

• 
  Close all application and program and reboot the computer.
  
• 
  Press Windows key+R.
  
• 
  Type services.msc and press enter.
  
• 
  From the list, you will see two services for Windows defender.
  
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  Right click on both the services one at a time.
  
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  Click on properties.
  
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  Under general tab, select automatic from startup type.
  
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  Click on start and then click on apply and then ok.
  
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  Reboot the computer and check if it helps.
  

I hope this helps. Please post back with the status of the issue and we will be glad to assist you further.