toady I'm going to show you how to turn off Windows Defender on Windows 10 on Windows
10 you can only turn off Windows Defender real time protection temporarily like you
can turn off the real time protection to off but Windows will automatically turn it back
on after a certain period of time so I will show you how to turn it off with a registry
edit that will keep it off here in the control panel under security and maintenance you can
see that Windows Defender is on if you look here where my mouse is it says Windows Defender
is helping to protect your PC on and then it also says the same thing below you can
also see here where my mouse is Windows Defender service automatic as the startup type and
that it is running and that is another way to show that it is on to turn off Windows
Defender you press the Windows key and R on your keyboard and in the run command you type
regedit and then hit enter then you go to hkey local machine software policies Microsoft
and then down to Windows Defender and then what you do is you right click in a blank
area you select new you select dword thirty two bit value and then you type in disable
anti-spyware and hit enter and then you right click this dword that you just entered and
you click modify and you change this zero to one and then you click okay and then you
exit the next thing you're going to want to do is restart your computer I just restarted
my computer and now we'll quickly go into the control panel to show you that Windows
Defender is now disabled and here we go we'll click on Windows Defender and as you can see
here on the message it says the app is turned off by group policy and this will keep it
off another way to keep it off is to install anti-virus software that will keep it off
it should turn it off I know for one that AVG free does not keep it off it actually
allows Windows Defender to run at the same time as AVG which is not very good so you
should turn it off because actually when you go to a computer that has Windows 10 and AVG
free if you go to security and maintenance it will tell you that having two programs
running at the same time is not a good idea so that's kind of weird either AVG didn't
turn it off properly or Windows wasn't allowing it to turn it off but I think the problem
lies with AVG free as for other anti-virus software I haven't really had a problem the
other anti-virus software I use has been able to turn it off if you want to turn Windows Defender back
on you just go the registry and then go to Windows Defender where we just were and there
will be text instructions in the video description you would just right click this disable anti-spyware
entry and click delete you'll get a message saying that this could cause instability in
your system just click yes and then exit the registry and then you'll have to restart your
computer again and then go into the control panel and click on Windows Defender and you'll
probably have to click start now so I'll just quickly restart my computer to show you that
I can turn it back on I just restarted my computer so now we'll go to the control panel
then we'll click on Windows Defender and right now it still looks like it's off but now you
will be able to turn it back on since we deleted that registry entry so you just click start
now and there you go PC status protected so it is back on and when you click settings
it shows that all of the settings for Windows Defender are on now when you go to security
and maintenance in the control panel and open security it shows that Windows Defender is
helping to protect your PC on so there you go you've successfully turn it back on so
that's how you turn Windows Defender off or on
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