No, in over 30 years of computing I never used real-time AV protection, only on-demand. I used Comodo for on-demand AV checks until recently and even then Windows Defender complained I had no...

It doesn't. Windows since v8 developing this attitude of the system knowing better than the admins what is good for them is extremely annoying and a reason to drop Windows altogether. That and...

Thanks for the reply. This would disable all notifications, including useful ones, and I believe it wouldn't remove the yellow triangle or X from the tray icon. What I mean is there must (or should )...

I thought switching this off fixed it, but Real-Time protection switches itself on again after a while. It may be that Windows recently updating to version 1909 somehow reset my group policy, but...