How to prevent Windows from blocking applications when we are going to install or download them

You may have encountered an unexpected problem in some occasion where Your PC has blocked an application that you download and try to installA bug that can be common but at the same time has an easy solution following a few steps within the Windows options.

This is a security measure so that Windows Defender protects us against possible threats when downloading applications, the famous .exe files. However, is a preventive measure that we can deactivate, yes, at our own risk.

The key is real-time protection

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The objective of this tutorial is to prevent Windows from blocking an application when we are going to install or download it Windows Defender protects the computer when it suspects that an application can be dangerous. The person responsible is the Real-Time Protection utility."

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What we have to do is temporarily deactivate the protection in real time and for that we have to enter the menu Settings, for which The most interesting thing is to click on the gear icon in the Start Menu."

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Within the Settings we have to look for the section Update and security>"

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Within Updates and security look at the left column and mark all the sections Windows Security We will see a window in the right area with different options and we look at the Protection Areas section>"

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Within the section Protection against viruses and threats we look at a section with the title Manage the settings of Antivirus and threat protection settings."

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We will see different switches and we look at the first one, the one titled as Real-time protection. To do this, it may ask you for administrator permissions to do so and in this case you give it to them."

In the lower right corner you will see a notice alerting you that the PC is unprotected, so it is an option that It is interesting to activate but only temporarily, as long as necessary.

Once we no longer need to have it deactivated, it is advisable to have it activated again to have the equipment always protected.