How to disable antivirus easily 【step by step】

If you want to learn how to disable the antivirus step by step, you are in the right place. It has never been so easy. Ready?

Windows antivirus is often too cautious on certain occasions, resulting in a somewhat bitter user experience. Microsoft decided that its antivirus was more protective than warning, so it can be annoying. Next, we explain how to disable the antivirus step by step.

How to disable antivirus step by step

The process is very simple, you just have to follow our steps to disable Windows Defender correctly. The steps are the following:

• We open the Start Menu and write "antivirus". We click on the option " Antivirus and threat protection ".

• We go to where it says " Antivirus settings and protection against threats ", specifically " manage settings ".

• Within this menu, we deactivate the " Real-time protection " option.

Then you will get a notification from Windows, warning that the system is not protected, etc.

You will already have the antivirus disabled. However, when you restart the antivirus it will be automatically activated again.

It may be annoying for some to be disabling Windows Defender all the time, so we have thought of you.

Is disabling Windows Defender possible?

If it is. Although Windows updates will always be lurking, and you know it. With that said, we can also disable updates, but that's another matter. We are going to what interests us: disable Windows Defender permanently.

• Open the Start Menu and type "edit group policy ".

• Once inside, we will follow the path of: Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Windows Components> Windows Defender Antivirus.

• We double click on " Deactivate Windows Defender ". We select the "Enable" option , apply and accept.

The process would have ended here, but to be sure, let's go to the Windows registry.

• Open the Start Menu and type " regedit " . Follow this path HKEYLOCALMACHINE> SOFTWARE> Policies> Microsoft> Windows Defender

• Right-click in the white area and create a 32-bit DWORD value.

• You renamed it to DisableAntiSpyware. Right click on it and modify it, changing the value to 1. You accept and restart your computer.

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We would have already finished the tutorial. Why wasn't it difficult? Likewise, if you have any questions, you can ask us below and we will help you as quickly as possible. Has this tutorial helped you? Does Windows Defender bother you a lot?