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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

HOW TO DISABLE WINDOWS DEFENDER OR TURN IT OFF

Some spyware protection is better than none, and it’s built in and free!
Windows Defender is such a application already installed with Windows. But if you’re already running a full anti-malware suite,you might not use windows defender but you donot even realize its still probably wasting precious resources even though you don't use it.  So there’s no need to have more than one application running at a time.

since Windows Defender can't be uninstalled, Here’s how to get rid of it....


Disable Windows Defender
Unfortunately, Windows Defender is completely built into Windows, and you’re not going to actually uninstall it. What we can do, however, is disable it.
Open up Windows Defender, go to Tools on the top menu, and then click on Options.
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Now click on Administrator on the left-hand pane, uncheck the box for “Use this program”, and click the Save button.

You will then be told that the program is turned off. Awesome!

If you really, really want to make sure that it never comes back, you can also open up the Services panel through Control Panel, or by typing services.msc into the Start Menu search or run boxes. Find Windows Defender in the list and double-click on it…

And then you can change Startup type to Disabled.

Now again, we’re not necessarily advocating that you get rid of Windows Defender. Make sure you keep yourself protected from malware!