Windows 10: Windows Defender and gpedit.msc

It seems my Windows Defender disabled for forever, I tried to turn it on back but it said something like turned off using Group Policy, so I run gpedit.msc then I search Windows Defender under Administrative Templates but there's no Windows Defender in the list. (I search from Google how to fix it though.)

Then there's this one problem again, not Antivirus related but my Windows Store icon disappeared from the taskbar but still clickable and launch it from taskbar, it's just the icon is missing (if you hover your cursor on it you still can click it to launch.)

Help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Note: I clean install the Windows after CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED bsod after upgrading from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. The crash occured when it was "Setting up your apps.." screen.

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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.

 

can i add gpedit.msc to windows 10? (to fix defender group policy problem)

windows 10 says windows defender is off by group policy

from research, this can be fixed by running gpedit.msc

but, windows 10 as loaded does not have gpedit.msc

so, windows defender will never be able to run

no virus protection present

real-time protection under update and security/windows defender is on, but not accessible to turn off

[Moved from Windows]

 

Type group policy defender into the forum search box, it will show you a list of tutorials, for turning it on.

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