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How to turn off Windows Defender in Windows 10 permanently? Sometimes you want to disable Windows Defender for testing purposes. If you have an Antivirus application running, Windows Defender will be automatically disabled. That’s because your Antivirus software will take over the security from now on. This article will teach you how to turn off Windows Defender in Windows 10 temporarily and permanently.
Start Task Manager on Windows 10. Find the Windows Defender service that is running. Search for the task name Antimalware Service Executable and the service Windows Defender Antivirus Service.
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Right-click the Windows Defender Antivirus Service and click Stop.
An error will show up that the operation could not be completed. Access is denied. It’s unable to stop the service.
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Start the application Services and right-click on Windows Defender Antivirus Service. You can see that the following options are greyed out:
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Open the Windows Start menu. Type Windows Security.
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Click on Virus & threat protection.
Windows Defender is enabled.
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If you installed another security product, you would see the following screen.
Windows Defender will automatically disable and not run if periodic scanning is turned off (which is the default when you install a third-party security product). However, when turning on periodic scanning, Windows Defender will run simultaneously with the third-party security product.
In Windows Security, click on Virus & threat protection.
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Click on Manage Settings.
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Click the toggle button under Real-time protection to turn off Windows Defender Antivirus.
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Doing that, you can see that:
How can you disable Windows Defender service completely and keep it disabled after a reboot? Find out in the next step.
Download Autoruns for Windows. Extract the zip file. You don’t need to do anything yet. You need Autoruns at a later stage.
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As shown in the previous step, make sure that Real-time protection is Off.
Important: Turn off Real-time protection.
Click on Windows Start and search for msconfig. Run System Configuration as administrator.
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You can also start the program Run. Type msconfig and click on OK.
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Select the tab Boot. In the section Boot options, enable Safe boot. Click on OK.
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Click on Restart.
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In the previous step, you already did download and extract Autoruns for Windows. Browse to the Autoruns folder and start the executable Autoruns64.exe. If you are running Windows 10 32-bit, start Autoruns.exe.
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Go to the tab Services. It will not show many services. That’s because Windows services are not showing by default.
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Click in the menu bar on Options. Uncheck Hide Windows Entries. It will show the Windows services in the list view.
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Search for WinDefend and uncheck the checkbox. Unchecking will prevent the Windows Defender automatic startup after every reboot.
Start the application msconfig.
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Select the Normal startup. Click on OK.
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Click on Restart.
After a restart, start Task Manager. There is no more Windows Defender service running.
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Start Windows Security and have a look at Virus & threat protection. You will see that there is a spinning icon, or the status is showing as unknown. That’s because it’s fetching the information.
Important: Do not click on the Virus & threat protection tile while it’s fetching information or the status is unknown. If you do that, it will enable Windows Defender. Keep waiting till you see it’s disabled.
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Give it a couple of minutes. After that, you will see that Virus & threat protection is disabled.
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Note: The first attempt might not work, and you have to do the steps a second time before it will turn off Windows Defender permanently.
Microsoft releases big Windows 10 OS updates a couple of times a year. After it’s installed and the Windows 10 OS is up to date with the new version, it sometimes triggers the Windows Defender service settings and starts automatically again. This means you must go through the steps to ensure that Windows Defender doesn’t start.
Suppose you like to revert the changes. Then, click on the Restart Now button in Windows Security. Another way is to boot into safe mode, start Autoruns, and check the WinDefend service.
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In this article, you learned how to turn off Windows Defender in Windows 10 permanently. Make sure to follow the exact steps, as shown in the article. After doing that, Windows Defender will be kept turned off.
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