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Avira won the speed test? It reliably made every PC I installed it on 2-3 times slower and adds a few minutes to the boot time compared to MSE or whatever it is
by yAnonymous 10y ago
Avira won the speed test? It reliably made every PC I installed it on 2-3 times slower and adds a few minutes to the boot time compared to MSE or whatever it is now called.
- barrkel 10y agoThe real-time scanning mode of Windows Defender completely destroyed the performance of Cygwin Setup when accessing a mirror stored on my NAS, to take one example. I'm not talking about a few minutes extra; it issued loads of network requests for every signature verification Setup tried to do, the process was still non-responsive after several hours. Turned off realtime scanning, and it immediately finished. Realtime monitoring has the biggest risk of performance degradation.
- lmm 10y agoIs there any way to turn off Windows Defender without installing anything else?
- zamalek 10y agoYeah, through the new Windows control panel ("Settings" -> "Update & Security" -> "Windows Defender"). Windows will hound you about that (and there is no way I know to turn off the nag).
- lmm 10y agoI thought it didn't just nag but turned itself back on after a while?
- zamalek 10y agoAs far as I know, only if you fall for the dark pattern nag. I haven't run in to this, either because I haven't had it disabled for long enough or because Microsoft buckled and removed it.
- ChoGGi 10y agoI've heard if you disable the service directly, then the "Windows Defender reports that the service is turned off" message stops happening. sc.exe config "WinDefend" start= disabled sc.exe stop "WinDefend"