Windows 10: No gpedit.msc, cant turn of windows defender.

Windows defender turned on when i didnt need or want it to. there Isn't a turn off button other than in gpedit.msc.
win+r to run gpedit.msc, says it cant find it. I even looked where the msc should be and its not there.

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Cant enable Denfender in windows 10 and have no group policy

Windows Defender suddenly turned itself off. I cant turn it on because it says contact your security administrator to enable via group policy. I have followed all the advise about trying to edit group policy but it says cant find "gpedit.msc". In the meantime
I have dozens of new notifications about malware detected (Trojans on my machine) but I cant get to defender to do do anything about it.

 

windows defender missing in gpedit.msc in windows 10

I have an ASUS laptop pre-installed with windows 10.I tried turning on windows defender but it is disabled. There is no gpedit.msc found in windows search. So I installed gpedit.msc from an external source but it is not showing windows defender folder
in windows components.Is there any other way to enable windows defender? please help.

 

Group Policy and gpedit.msc are only in Windows 10 Pro and above. If the version is shown as Windows 10 with no other designation it will be the home edition that does not have it. It cannot be added. It is not just gpedit.msc but the infrastructure that supports it that is missing.

 

okay but how do i turn windows defender off?, i cant use services

 

Turns out that all i had to do was run a trainer, which promted norton. This action told windows defender to turn off becuase there was already an AV program.

 

what is running a trainer? I've heard of running a train(never participated). And can you do this without installing norton or any other antivirus software? I'm trying to eliminate any background apps on this slow system I have