By itself, that doesn't work for a long time now. Windows 10 Update Assistant doesn't need Windows Update service (wuauserv) running to update Windows 10.
Hi all, does all the scripts posted on page 1 stop also the smartscreen.exe process of windows 1809? thanks
Smartscreen is another issue/challenge. I use this: Code: takeown /f "%WinDir%\System32\smartscreen.exe" /a icacls "%WinDir%\System32\smartscreen.exe" /grant:r Administrators:F /c taskkill /im smartscreen.exe /f del "%WinDir%\System32\smartscreen.exe" /s /f /q
For now I'm using the same method but I'm looking to a more "clean" solution to disable it. With this method "sfc /verifyonly" will find integrity problems.
I have EnterpriseS LTSC version, new .195 update. Managed to disable windows defender, but windows defender firewall service (mpssvc) i can't disable (it's listed in services list, fixed in automatic mode). Also i disabled security center and now i can't disable notifications about disabled security center ???
Via registry, you can also disable "Base Filtering Engine". If you disable "Network Store Interface Service", it will also disable WDF. Code: reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MpsSvc" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d "4" /f Code: reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings" /v "NOC_GLOBAL_SETTING_TOASTS_ENABLED" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f You can also enable security center and disable all security messages, then disable it again.
Right now I disable all the defender stuff via registry edits, but I'm looking at using the MSMG Toolkit to remove it altogether, haven't tried it yet, but might be a better solution. Can also remove smartscreen; https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/msmg-toolkit.50572/
OK. Base filtering engine and firewall are dead. But i had to enable security center to avoid popups from Notifications & Actions, security and maintenance banners are grey (fixed turned on) TOASTS reg setting didn't help. In security center i also don't see option to disable notifications