If you have an Antivirus application running, Windows Defender will be automatically disabled.

This article will teach you how to turn off Windows Defender in Windows 10 temporarily and permanently.

Search for the task name Antimalware Service Executable and the service Windows Defender Antivirus Service.

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Extract the zip file and start the executable Autoruns64.exe.

If you are running Windows 10 32-bit, start Autoruns.exe.

You will see that there is a spinning icon, or the status is showing as unknown.

After that, you will see that Virus threat protection is disabled.

Make sure to follow the exact steps, as shown in the article.

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I just want to shut it down as it keeps running in the background when I really dont need it.

It comes with all the stupid shit they put in windows 10 that you want to turn off because you dont need it but you cant.

You can start autoruns in safe mode and uncheck windefend, but defender still runs.

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I turned real time scanning off, but I am not able to do shit.

Windows Defender is disabled permanently on both the Windows 10 systems.

How To Stop All Current Installations Windows Defender