Sometimes we need to install an application or an antivirus on our computer and Windows Defender does not allow it. Therefore, today in this post we will show you how to disable Windows Defender completely in Windows 10 in a 100% effective way.
The first thing you should know is that Windows Defender is the antivirus that comes installed from the factory on your computer. However, we know that sometimes it does not allow you to install programs that you want to have on your computer.
By following the steps that we will name below, you will be able to install the applications you want without Windows Defender interfering with it. Of course, it is important that you keep in mind that, by deactivating it, your computer will be left without an antivirus to protect it, which makes it vulnerable.
Therefore, you should install an antivirus to keep it protected from any threat that could damage its systems. Knowing this, continue reading and learn how to disable Windows Defender completely in Windows 10, quickly and easily.
Steps to disable Windows Defender from settings
We have always been led to believe that turning Windows Defender on or off is something very difficult, but today you will learn that this is not true. If you follow these simple steps that we will indicate below to the letter, you will see how in a matter of minutes you have Windows Defender deactivated on your computer.
- The first thing is to click on the Windows 10 start button and select settings, which, as you already know, is the gear-shaped icon.
- Once in settings, you will click on update and security.
- Press Windows Security and open the Windows Defender Security Center.
- When doing so, several options will appear and you will press the one called, antivirus and threat protection.
- In this case, you will click on the antivirus and threat protection settings.
- Being there you will deactivate all the tabs that are activated.
In this way you will be able to completely disable Windows Defender and you will be able to install a new antivirus and any program that you could not install before. If for some reason, once you’ve installed everything you wanted, you want to turn it back on, just go to settings again.
Once in configuration, carry out all the previous indications, but in this case you are going to activate the protections that you had deactivated. That is to say, you will activate the protection in real time, the one based on the cloud and the automatic sending of samples and that’s it.
Disable Windows Defender from Group Policy
Now, as we mentioned with the previous steps, you can quickly and easily disable Windows Defender from the settings. But, you can also achieve this from group policies as follows:
- Press the Windows 10 start button and type: Edit group policies.
- When you are in the edition of the group policies, you will click on “Computer Configuration”.
- Later you will select “administrative templates” / “Windows components”.
- Select “Windows Defender Antivirus.”
- Press “turn off Windows Defender”, by doing so you will find several options and you must check the one that says “enabled” and finally “accept”.
- Restart your computer and voila, you will have Windows Defender disabled.
If once you have downloaded everything you wanted on your computer, you want to have it again, follow the same instructions. Except that in this case instead of selecting “disabled” you will mark, “not configured”, you restart the computer and that’s it, you will have the antivirus again.
As you have realized, it is extremely easy to disable Windows Defender on your computer regardless of the option you want to use. Just do not forget, what we mentioned at the beginning of the post and that is that when you deactivate it, your computer will be unprotected.
So you have to install the antivirus of your choice, so as not to expose your computer to constant threats that can damage it. If this information has helped you, keep reading our articles, because in them you will always find the information you need at the moment.
You might also be interested in knowing about: How to uninstall programs in Windows 10.
