Windows 10: Windows Defender Antivirus not showing up in Group Policy after tweak

It was there earlier, I then went to "disable" it, rebooted. Now it's gone completely and only Defender Smartscreen is shown. How do I get it back? I don't have any AV installed, btw. Thanks Edit: Windows defender is called Microsoft Defender Antivirus. I found it. Is there a way to disable it completely (manually)?

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Windows Defender Antivirus not showing up in Group Policy after tweak

<------- I'm on Windows 10 Home, fully up to date.


Did you set the "Options" like I showed in the pic I posted... (#1)?

You need to follow those directions... exactly.


1. Set the Options as shown. (#1)
2. Make sure you're on the "Everything tab, and search for windows defender (#2)
3. UN-check the boxes as shown, and reboot. (#3)
4. Go into Services, and you should now be able to disable the Microsoft Defender and Windows Defender entries.












You need to search for windows defender... NOT just defender




/edit

Oh, I see what you're looking at. I named my user... XP *Smile



On YOUR picture, you need to UN-check the ones with the RED dots. *Smile

 

Windows Defender Antivirus not showing up in Group Policy after tweak

Yes, you can completely disable it, but that's not really a good idea...



Get Autoruns, here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/autoruns

It's portable, so just extract it to any folder you create.
Then RUN... Autoruns64.exe








1. Set the Options as shown.
2. Make sure you're on the "Everything tab, and search for windows defender
3. UN-check the boxes as shown, and reboot.
4. Go into Services, and you should now be able to disable the Microsoft Defender and Windows Defender entries.






You can also go here: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/
...and just do a search for "disable Windows Defender".

 

Windows Defender Antivirus not showing up in Group Policy after tweak

Thank you. I know what you mean. I appreciate the warning!

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Unfortunately, I ran into a roadblock. Despite signing in as Admin and UAC set to lowest, I can only change mpssvc. My info looks much different than the your pic which appears to be from a Windows XP system.