Windows 10: WD not working after uninstalling Bitdefender

Hello, i recenty uninstalled Bitdefender on Windows 8.1 and ever since I cannot activate Windows Defender because it says that I am using another antivirus provider?

I have restarted a couple of times and tried to open group policy but for some reason when I type gpedit.msc in Run it says "Windows cannot find gpedit.msc..."


*edit, maybe worth mentioning I also have Malwarebytes Free installed, without real time protection, WD and MB Free did not conflict before, because MB is not even running all the time, nor at this moment.

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WD not working after uninstalling Bitdefender

Hello, i recenty uninstalled Bitdefender on Windows 8.1 and ever since I cannot activate Windows Defender because it says that I am using another antivirus provider?

I have restarted a couple of times and tried to open group policy but for some reason when I type gpedit.msc in Run it says "Windows cannot find gpedit.msc..."

*edit, maybe worth mentioning I also have Malwarebytes Free installed, without real time protection, WD and MB Free did not conflict before, because MB is not even running all the time, nor at this moment.

 

WD not working after uninstalling Bitdefender

As far as I can see, only uninstall tools for paid and trial software, I used Bitdefender free...

 

WD not working after uninstalling Bitdefender

Did you follow these instructions:

[table][tr][td]BitDefender[/td][td]Support Consumer Archive - Bitdefender[/td][/tr][/table]

After doing that:

How to restart Defender:

Bad User Agent detected

If you've previously uninstalled a third-party antivirus product (avast!, AVG, Norton/Symantec, McAfee or some other product), you might see a dialog that states that Windows Defender is turned off. In that case, either click Action Center's white flag
icon in
Taskbar Notification Area (aka System Tray) and click
Turn on virus protection (Important) or Turn on spyware protection (Important), or open Control Panel (Windows Key+X has a nice shortcut), type action into Search field, click
Action Center and then click one of the Turn on now buttons in Security section.

Please note that Action Center might have no red warning icon for several days after you've removed a third-party virus protection tool.

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