| 63 | = Windows Diable Defender = |
| 64 | |
| 65 | {{{ |
| 66 | |
| 67 | I think I found out a very good workaround for the POLICY Setting getting reset to "Not Configured" every time you restart Group Policy Editor. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | I had the same problem and guessed out (correctly) that it was MsMpEng.exe |
| 70 | running in the background that was resetting the policy back to "Not Configured". |
| 71 | |
| 72 | So, before making any changes to the policy, head over to Task Manager, |
| 73 | then to Performance Monitor from the Performance tab. Find MsMpEng.exe in any of the tabs |
| 74 | in it (mostly on top in Memory or CPU tabs) and click on Suspend Process. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Then make the changes as required in the Group Policy Editor. It won't get reverted back. Please reply if it works, or didn't work. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Step 2: Navigate to this path – |
| 80 | |
| 81 | Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Step 3: Locate the Turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus policy. Double-click on this policy option to open a new window, check the option of Enabled, and then click Apply > OK to save the change to disable Windows Defender. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | 1. Press Windows + R and type 'regedit'. |
| 86 | 2. Once inside, follow the path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender. |
| 87 | 3. In that folder, create a DWORD (32-bit) key. You can do that right-clicking on the Windows Defender folder, and going to New. |
| 88 | 4. Set the DWORD title do DisableAntiSpyware.and change its value to 1. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v "DisableAntiSpyware" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f |
| 91 | |
| 92 | }}} |
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