[DISCUSSION] Disabling Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender)

Discussion in 'Windows 11' started by Espionage724, Oct 29, 2021.

  1. vladnil

    vladnil MDL Senior Member

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  2. mannyhi

    mannyhi MDL Novice

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    is that necessary if i cloned the repo in visual studio and did build and ran defendnot-loader.exe? also, it doesn't remove but disable. i was hoping this would help lower the memory usage of microsoft defender's processes but it only did by a little...disappointed, wanted to tweak my 8 gig ram lappy
     
  3. marko41297

    marko41297 MDL Novice

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    Hello everyone.
    I have a question. I apologize if this was answered before.
    What is the PROPER way right now to disable defender and automatic updates?
     
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  6. TairikuOkami

    TairikuOkami MDL Expert

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    You have probably disabled Security Center? Technically, it has nothing to do with security, in the past it was called Action/Notification center.
    It takes several seconds to load, because Settings is a scripted UWP app now, but it might be the result of disabled Security Center.
     

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