Defender Control is a small Portable freeware which will allow you to disable Windows Defender in Windows 10 completely. What is certain however is that it will annoy users who want to disable it permanently on the computer they are working on.

It is unclear why Microsoft made the decision to change the behavior of Windows Defender in this regard. You can turn the program’s real-time protection off temporarily, but if it’s off for a while Windows will turn it back on automatically. Many people are looking for ways to disable or remove it from their system as they prefer to use other software, for example on Windows 8 and 10 you cannot turn off Windows Defender completely anymore, A click on Settings in Windows Defender opens the control panel for the program in the new Windows Settings application. The problem with all Defender versions in Windows Vista and above is it’s integrated into the operating system and installs by default with no visible or hidden option to uninstall. So this might be due to the IOT Enterprise edition, but i can't find what is so different that it won't just disable? Any thoughts on this are appreciated. I also checked if Tamper was still off after a reboot, and it was. To be sure, i checked tamper protection being off. ( to be clear i tried the solution here, since manual GPedit and reg tweaks would delete the added D-Word after a reboot. I've tried the batchfile in this thread, but the service returns to running processes as soon as a reboot was finished. But on this installation, the changes don't persist.

As simple as disabling it using the regedit tweak to windows defender. If you want to use Windows Defender, you cannot. The process uses up to 35% of cpu from time to time, and i need it gone.Įvery method, that worked for my Home and Professional installations, persisted fine. Windows Defender is an essential service that runs on Windows 10. Since my device will be running only locally, and we need as little resources used as possible, i too want to be able to turn it off. Looking for ways to 'disable antimalware service executable' on Windows 10 IOT Enterprise. Google was nice enough to have me land here.

I can t turn on windows defender