Comments on: 5 Quick Ways To Turn Off Windows Defender On Windows 10

By: Mohammadreza Rashad

Mohammadreza Rashad — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 18:02:06 +0000

In reply to kuba4ful.

Would you please explain a bit? Using NirSoft AdvancedRun, I still recieve “Access denied” error. I ran AdvancedRun as admin, typed the cmd.exe full path in “Program to run” field, and set “trustedInstaller” in “Run as” combo box; But when click

By: kuba4ful

kuba4ful — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:41:52 +0000

To everyone who gets “Access Denied”, you can circumvent it by logging into cmd as TrustedInstaller.

By: charlie

charlie — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:36:23 +0000

thru powershell admin type Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true for off and $false for on

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 07:54:37 +0000

In reply to Gori. That script is epic! love the commenting!

By: Sergio

Sergio — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:06:20 +0000

Windows 10 20H2 build 19042.685 with latest updates – nothing works!!!

By: Gori

Gori — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:39:44 +0000

In reply to w.

A competent powershell script like ToggleDefender is needed
pastebin.com/hLsCCZQY
(save as .bat script or copy-paste directly into console – it’s a hybrid)
It shows a simple Yes,No,Cancel prompt

By: edward

edward — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:03:24 +0000

In reply to Usman Khurshid. yes

By: Usman Khurshid

Usman Khurshid — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:12:17 +0000

In reply to w. did you run the command as administrator?

By: w

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:07:41 +0000

“sc stop WinDefend” now results in “access denied”

By: k

Fri, 08 May 2020 14:38:02 +0000

Good details and comprehensive article.

I need to prevent Defender from starting after reboot, the only method that works now is gpedit.