Disable the Windows Defender on Windows 10 20H2

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How do I completely disable the Windows Defender Firewall/Antivirus on every edition of Windows 10 20H2?


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Hi, have you looked at the Tutorial section here? Lots of useful practical and informative guides. I commend it to you.

How to Turn On or Off Microsoft Defender Antivirus in Windows 10

For interest there will be similar questions already discussed if you care to search the forum e.g. these two:
Permanently Disable Windows Defender?

Permanently disable Windows Defender

A 3rd party app is not needed for this, just follow Brinks tutorial.

balubeto said:

Hi

How do I completely disable the Windows Defender Firewall/Antivirus on every edition of Windows 10 20H2?


Thanks

Bye

Get Autoruns and set it up like shown, and do a search for Windows Defender, then uncheck the boxes shown.
THEN you will be able to disable the Windows Defender "Services".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/autoruns

Turn On or Off Tamper Protection for Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Bushido1 said:

Changing the attached options in Autoruns give the error "Error changing item state: Access is denied" even in Administrator mode.

I don't know then. It worked for me.
I guess it's possible MS might have changed something since I did it?