Windows 10: How to turn off the Windows Defender notification-icon in v1703?

Tried the group policy, tried the direct registry setting, tried the notification-settings - nothing works anymore. Does anyone know the magic trick to turn off the Windows Defender notification-icon?
The icon I am speaking off:



Any ideas?

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How can I disable malware notifications?

See also
http://www.howtogeek.com/265648/how-to-turn-off-enhanced-notifications-for-windows-defender/

 

Remove windows defender icon from the tray on win 10

Hi Vaso,

To help you remove Windows Defender icon from your computer's system tray, you may follow these steps:

• Right-click taskbar, and then choose Settings.
  
• Under Notification area, click Select which icons appear on the taskbar.
  
• Turn off the Windows Defender notification icon.

Do let us know how it goes.

 

Check out this post Getting rid of the CU "Security Center" taskbar icon?

 

Thank you for your answer; I need another way though since I'm not using the task manager.

 

Why not? It's simple to open Task Manager, just right-click on the taskbar and select it.

You need to be an administrator (or to run Task Manager as an administrator) to be able to disable anything in Start-up. Any other way of removing the icon would also require admin rights, such as running this in a command prompt:
taskkill /im MSASCuiL.exe

Without admin rights, your only alternative is to move the Defender icon into the 'Hidden icons', only visible when you click the up-arrow in the notification area.

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