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Disable Windows Defender

To disable Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 11, boot into Safe Mode and modify specific registry services to change their startup parameters to 4. Additionally, disable related tasks in Task Scheduler and verify the status through the Windows Security app. To re-enable Microsoft Defender, revert the registry changes to their default values and disable Safe Mode.

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Disable Windows Defender

To disable Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 11, boot into Safe Mode and modify specific registry services to change their startup parameters to 4. Additionally, disable related tasks in Task Scheduler and verify the status through the Windows Security app. To re-enable Microsoft Defender, revert the registry changes to their default values and disable Safe Mode.

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To completely disable Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 11, you need to boot your computer

to Safe Mode.

1. Run msconfig;
2. Go to the Boot tab;
3. Select Safe boot -> Minimal in the boot options section;

4. Click OK and restart your computer.


5. Your computer will boot into Safe Mode;
6. Then open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe), go to the reg
key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and disable the
startup of the following services:
o Sense
o WdBoot
o WdFilter
o WdNisDrv
o WdNisSvc
o WinDefend
To do it, change the Start parameter value

to 4.
Change the Start value for all services specified above manually or using the following
PowerShell script:
$regpath='HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services'
Set-ItemProperty -Path ($regpath+"\WinDefend") -Name Start -Value 4
Set-ItemProperty -Path ($regpath+"\Sense") -Name Start -Value 4
Set-ItemProperty -Path ($regpath+"\WdFilter") -Name Start -Value 4
Set-ItemProperty -Path ($regpath+"\WdNisDrv") -Name Start -Value 4
Set-ItemProperty -Path ($regpath+"\WdNisSvc”) -Name Start -Value 4
Set-ItemProperty -Path ($regpath+"\WdBoot") -Name Start -Value 4
To re-enable Microsoft Defender in Windows, set the following default values of the Start
registry entry for services:
o Sense — 3
o WdBoot — 0
o WdFilter — 0
o WdNisDrv — 3
o WdNisSvc — 3
o WinDefend — 2
7. Run msconfig and disable the Safe Mode. Then restart your computer and boot as usual;
8. Disable the following four tasks in Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc): Microsoft –> Windows –

> Windows Defender.


Get-ScheduledTask “Windows Defender Cache Maintenance” | Disable-ScheduledTask
Get-ScheduledTask “Windows Defender Cleanup” | Disable-ScheduledTask
Get-ScheduledTask “Windows Defender Scheduled Scan” | Disable-ScheduledTask
Get-ScheduledTask “Windows Defender Verification” | Disable-ScheduledTask
You can disable the Scheduler tasks using PowerShell.
Run the Windows Security app and make sure that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is now disabled.
You should see the message: Threat service has stopped. Restart it

now.
So we have looked at how to disable Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows 10 and 11

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