Windows 10 Remove Windows Defender

[INSTG8R]

Guess what else Defender likes to delete? Pictures, office documents, video transferred from phones/camera's and programs that are known safe like offline antimalware installers and browser setup files.


That's not a great assumption. You have no way of knowing.

No like I said All of the OPs post have been posts about games, next post is about Defender deleting files the connection is terribly obvious.
Also to take a page from your book. Defender deletes personal files?
Citation please?

 

[Kursah]

Guess what else Defender likes to delete? Pictures, office documents, video transferred from phones/camera's and programs that are known safe like offline antimalware installers and browser setup files.

Never had that issue for myself or clients with Defender and locally hosted documents, pictures, videos, AV and browser setups. Not saying Defender isn't capable of it (Well hello first release 1809...though I have one system that got 1809 and I lost 0 data there as well, no issues), but I have seen other AVAM solutions do that very thing too with false positives. It's not limited to Defender by any means.

 

[GlacierNine]

Never had that issue for myself or clients with Defender and locally hosted documents, pictures, videos, AV and browser setups. Not saying Defender isn't capable of it (Well hello first release 1809...though I have one system that got 1809 and I lost 0 data there as well, no issues), but I have seen other AVAM solutions do that very thing too with false positives. It's not limited to Defender by any means.

I have also literally never seen that behaviour occur in any system I have ever used. Mine or anyone elses.

 

[rtwjunkie]

@R0H1T @Vayra86 @rtwjunkie
When my clients and customers bring me systems that are behaving badly and they describe their problems, I troubleshoot. When I discover that something seems to be causing the problem, remove/change that something and the problem goes away, problem solved. In the case of Windows Defender, it is one of the most consistent and ongoing culprits of user problems in all versions of Windows that come with it, mostly Windows 10. Deleting it and replacing it consistently resolves users problems while not compromising their security. The methods I described in the process in the earlier post is exclusive to Windows 10 as the process is different and can be done entirely from within Windows on Windows 7. So the notions that these procedures are outdated or leftovers from a previous version of Windows are entirely incorrect. Additionally, as the graph R0H1T provided shows, there are many competent security suites available from a variety of trustworthy vendors and can handily entirely replace Microsoft's offering, but without all of the irritations. Progress and technology marches on.

Everyone seems gripped with fear of not doing things the Microsoft way. That is not the only way to do things and often isn't even the best way. In the case of antimalware, Windows Defender may be rated well but in practice it shows itself to be more trouble than it's worth. Deleting/replacing it will not magically break a system, nor will it become unstable. Most systems benefit from it's removal and replacement which is why I promote doing so.

Hmmmmm, I don’t care what your non-pc savvy customers have problems with. I’ve got MalwareBytes alongside Windows Defender on one, and MalwareBytes alongside Avast on another. No problems on either. No special attention needed on either.

 

[Vayra86]

@R0H1T @Vayra86 @rtwjunkie
When my clients and customers bring me systems that are behaving badly and they describe their problems, I troubleshoot. When I discover that something seems to be causing the problem, remove/change that something and the problem goes away, problem solved. In the case of Windows Defender, it is one of the most consistent and ongoing culprits of user problems in all versions of Windows that come with it, mostly Windows 10. Deleting it and replacing it consistently resolves users problems while not compromising their security. The methods I described in the process in the earlier post is exclusive to Windows 10 as the process is different and can be done entirely from within Windows on Windows 7. So the notions that these procedures are outdated or leftovers from a previous version of Windows are entirely incorrect. Additionally, as the graph R0H1T provided shows, there are many competent security suites available from a variety of trustworthy vendors and can handily entirely replace Microsoft's offering, but without all of the irritations. Progress and technology marches on.

Everyone seems gripped with fear of not doing things the Microsoft way. That is not the only way to do things and often isn't even the best way. In the case of antimalware, Windows Defender may be rated well but in practice it shows itself to be more trouble than it's worth. Deleting/replacing it will not magically break a system, nor will it become unstable. Most systems benefit from it's removal and replacement which is why I promote doing so.

If you have an alternate solution that is considered solid and you take measures to implement security of your system and data, all is well in the world. It doesn't need to be Windows Defender, but experience tells us that keeping something up to date is not for everyone.

The point initially was - make sure you have an adequate replacement for Defender. That is all I've got to say about it. Its not 'fear', its minimizing risk and making sure you're not liable for damages. And my other point is: Windows Defender doesn't cause any problems with any sort of normal use of a PC. I haven't had a single issue with it, and I could create exceptions that didn't act funny whenever I wanted. It does everything I need and most of all: I don't need to fiddle with it.

If you see other people's PCs you know just as well as I do that users do all sorts of weird, illogical or downright silly stuff to their OS. 'If I delete Defender, problem goes away' is hardly a conclusive evidence that Defender is the cause. Also, big data proves you wrong. Defender is one of the most widely used applications now and rightly so.

 

[Athlonite]

Guess what else Defender likes to delete? Pictures, office documents, video transferred from phones/camera's and programs that are known safe like offline antimalware installers and browser setup files.


That's not a great assumption. You have no way of knowing.

That's nothing to do with Defender that's a setting in Storage Sense see below

Oh and I've never seen Defender delete pirated anything and I have a shit ton of noCD cracks because I dislike Steam and Origin and battle.net or any other game that requires me to sign into some crap online before I can play a game and I don't play online multi-player and never ever have I had Defender try to delete these. And even if it does it's not gone completely it's in the Vault and can be sent back to where it came from and an exception made to leave it alone just like any other AV program around you just need to set it up appropriately for the situation it's being used in

 

[MrGenius]

Oh and I've never seen Defender delete pirated anything...

Oh it will. Trust me. Try burning a cracked .iso of any version of Windows. Don't ask me how I know...

...even if it does it's not gone completely it's in the Vault and can be sent back to where it came from and an exception made to leave it alone just like any other AV program around...

Well...yeah. It'll try at least. But we know what to do to prevent that shit now don't we?

 

[StrayKAT]

I've seen Defender alert/delete "legit" software even, but it was probably for the best. TC4Shell is a compression utility I own, but Defender went crazy with TC4Shell's licensing scheme, where it embeds your license info in undesirable areas on the system. It listed it as a trojan even, that sends back control of your whole machine to the maker of the virus. Either that or Windows didn't like how it integrated compression into the Windows shell/Explorer. I decided to not install it anymore and use 7Zip instead. Kind of sucks though, because I like the Explorer integrated compression for the amount of file types it supports.. but something may very well be shady about the developer (he's a Russian... lol).

 

[Athlonite]

Try Peazip it's free and also supports a lot of compression types

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hmmmmm, I don’t care what your non-pc savvy customers have problems with.

I have too. It's my job and I'm exceptionally good at it.

I’ve got MalwareBytes alongside Windows Defender on one, and MalwareBytes alongside Avast on another. No problems on either. No special attention needed on either.

That's cool, if that works for you do carry on.

If you have an alternate solution that is considered solid and you take measures to implement security of your system and data, all is well in the world. It doesn't need to be Windows Defender

That's exactly what I've been saying. Removal and replacement.

The point initially was - make sure you have an adequate replacement for Defender.

Agreed. That was part of the point I made as well. Well known and excellent replacements for it were suggested.

That is all I've got to say about it. Its not 'fear', its minimizing risk and making sure you're not liable for damages.

Like Microsoft?

'If I delete Defender, problem goes away' is hardly a conclusive evidence that Defender is the cause.

You're right, there's a great deal more to it than that. However, I didn't feel like a 6 page essay about the exact technical details on the subject was necessary given what the OP was asking for originally.

The OP, @Slo2018, started this thread asking for a way to remove Windows Defender. They did not ask for explanations for it's behavior or ways to disable it, nor for advice on whether removing it is a good or bad idea. A method to remove was provided. Said method works and does not compromise system stability. Included in those instructions was the recommendation for replacement as well as suggestions for known competent and well liked replacements.

 

[RCoon]

OP hasn't returned to any of your responses. Closing thread until we get a PM otherwise.