{"id":5172,"date":"2015-07-05T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:55:18","slug":"turn-off-windows-defender-in-windows-10-or-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/turn-off-windows-defender-in-windows-10-or-8\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Turn off Windows Defender in Windows 10 or 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows Defender is a built-in antivirus software comes with Windows 10 and Windows 8. While Windows Defender provides very baseline protection, it slows down your PC considerably. Users who prefer using third-party security solution like Kaspersky, McAfee or Norton might want to completely disable Windows Defender. Here are 3 ways to turn off Windows Defender in Windows 10 or 8.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Permanently Turn off Windows Defender with Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + R to bring up the Run box. Type gpedit.msc<\/strong> and hit Enter.\n

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  2. In the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor<\/a>, navigate to the following location:
    \n\tComputer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Defender Antivirus -> Real-time Protection<\/code><\/p>\n

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    In the right pane you will see a policy labeled “Turn off real-time protection<\/strong>“. Double-click on it to modify.\n<\/li>\n

  3. Select Enabled<\/strong>. Click Apply and then OK.\n

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  4. You have to restart the computer to allow this policy to take place. When you try to turn on real-time protection again in Windows Defender, you’ll get a message that saying “This setting is managed by your administrator<\/em>“.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Permanently Turn off Windows Defender with Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open the Command Prompt as administrator<\/a>. Type the following command and press Enter.
      \nreg add \"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows Defender\\Real-Time Protection\" \/v DisableRealtimeMonitoring \/t REG_DWORD \/d 1 \/f<\/code><\/p>\n

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    2. Restart your computer to apply the changes, and then Windows Defender should now be disabled.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Method 3: Temporarily Turn off Real-time Protection from Windows Defender<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. After opening up Windows Defender<\/a>, navigate to Virus & threat protection<\/strong> tab. Under the “Virus & threat protection settings” section, click on the Manage settings<\/strong> link.\n

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      2. Turn off the Real-time protection<\/strong> toggle switch.\n

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      3. Windows Defender will disable its real-time protection temporarily. The next time you restart your computer Windows Defender will re-enable automatically.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Windows Defender is a built-in antivirus software comes with Windows 10 and Windows 8. While Windows Defender provides very baseline protection, it slows down your PC considerably. Users who prefer using third-party security solution like Kaspersky, McAfee or Norton might want to completely disable Windows Defender. Here are 3 ways to turn off Windows Defender […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,39],"tags":[2225,2226,2224],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-8","tag-disable-windows-defender","tag-remove-windows-defender","tag-turn-off-windows-defender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13968,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions\/13968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}