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Windows defender makes Windows 10 absolutely impossible to use on slow (non-SSD) drives. That would be fine if there was an easy way to disable it, but it's lit
by Kaze404 6y ago
Windows defender makes Windows 10 absolutely impossible to use on slow (non-SSD) drives. That would be fine if there was an easy way to disable it, but it's literally impossible without digging through guides online. It's insanity that this is allowed.
- geitir 6y agoIt's super easy to disable if you have group policy
- Kaze404 6y agoI know there are ways to disable it, but none are intuitive and/or discoverable by regular people. Also Group Policy is not available on Windows 10 Home (without hacks anyway).
- rfoo 6y agoI'd say it is easy enough, just paste some random scary command from a quick Google search into the shell. Or maybe my expectations are too low. It is not like I could have known how to disable the insanely stupid ApplePressAndHold thing on macOS without searching online...
- Kaze404 6y agoThe problem is the average person wouldn't know what a shell is in the first place, and those are the ones with the least powerful machines that suffer the most from this. They shouldn't have to go through a process that has the possibility of ruining their machine just to get it to work reliably.
- kiddico 6y agoYou might be interested in OOSU10 (https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) which has options to disable just about everything you can think of, including Defender.
- throwaway888abc 6y agoAnd windows still "reasonably" works after ?
- wvenable 6y agoYes! I haven't noticed any difference. I've started using OOSU10 on all my Windows installs as well as Windows10Debloater. It makes a performance difference on resource constrained devices and for other devices I just like a cleaner Windows install.
- Kaze404 6y agoThanks, I'll use it on my gaming VM.