How to disable Windows Defender In Windows 10 [2020]

If you want to permanently disable Windows Defender then read the ' How to disable Windows Defender' Guide.

Complete guide on how to disable Windows Defender

How to disable Windows Defender: In this post, I will explain how to disable Windows Defender in Windows 10 permanently. Windows Defender is an antivirus software offered by Microsoft company with the Windows operating system. Which is completely free and we do not have to pay a single penny for it. Windows Defender protects our system from many viruses, trojans, ransomewares, spywares, phising sites and malwares.

Which is a good thing for our computers. Even though it protects our PC from viruses and malwares, very few people want to keep it on their PC and it has a solid reason. Windows Defender is not a capable antivirus that can provide complete protection against viruses and malwares to our systems. But for the last few years Microsoft has worked on it continuously and has tried to make Windows Defender a better antivirus.

Microsoft, to be honest, has been somewhat successful in this endeavor. But still due to some reasons many users are not happy with the Windows Defender and they just want to uninstall it, unfortunately Microsoft does not give you any features that can help you uninstall the Windows Defender. To get rid of this problem, you can disable the Windows Defender forever. So for this, read the complete guide on 'How to disable Windows Defender'.

How to disable Windows Defender in Windows 10 - Complete Guide

If you are installing any software then it is likely that Windows Defender will prevent you from doing so. When we want to install any third party software or any suspicious software, as soon as you try to open the .exe file after downloading, the Windows Defender disappears that file. Sometimes the Windows Defender behaves so strangly and also stops the installation of the Trusted software, especially then the situation becomes more frustrating. 

How to disable Windows Defender Windows 10

To permanently disable the Windows defender, carefully read and follow all the instructions given below-

Step # 1

Press the Windows Key + R button from the keyboard. After this, a pop up window will open and click on yes. Now the Run Search window will open.

Step # 2

Now you have to click on the OK button by typing regedit in the search box as shown in the image below.

   

Step#3

Now the registry editor will open on your system. Here you have to expand the folder containing HEY_LOCAL-MACHINE.

  

Step#4

Expand the folder containing the Software

Step#5

Now you have to expand the folder containing Policies -



Step#6

Now you have to expand the folder containing Microsoft -

                                                         

Step#7

Now you will see a folder named Windows Defender. This folder is not to be expanded like the previous one, but rather click on it -

                                               

Step#8

Now your computer screen will be split into two parts, a file will appear on the right side of Disable Antispy ... you have to right click on it -



Step#9

Now you have to click on the option Modify ...

                                      
Step#10

Now a new pop up window will open in which you will see an option of value data which will be 0, you have to make this value 0 to 1 and click on OK.

                                       

Note:- Now your query 'How to disable Windows Defender' has been solved, but whenever you want to re-enable the Windows Defender, reduce the value data to 0.

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