Defender Icon in Start Menu, How do I remove it?

With the Anniversary update came an improved Defender Antivirus, This is good! But I am trying to remove unnecessary icons from my start menu, and I can find no option to turn this one off?
Anyone know of a tweak that can do this please?

bro67: The only setting I can find in ANY of the "Settings" tabs, hides the icons on the taskbar, but does not remove them?

I was looking for a way to remove the icon, not hide it! Anyway thanks for trying!

Willabong said:

I was looking for a way to remove the icon, not hide it! Anyway thanks for trying!

Open Task Manager > More details > Startup tab > disable the Windows Defender notification icon.

Or delete it from startup...

Open Registry Editor and navigate to:

Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Right click and delete the value:

Code:

WindowsDefender

Restart your PC.

Thanks Private, just what I wanted!:)