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I won't buy another Windows laptop. It's no longer possible to disable some "features" so I've given up. Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always
by narag 4y ago
I won't buy another Windows laptop. It's no longer possible to disable some "features" so I've given up. Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated. External disks that are only connected for archival purposes (and never updated) get scanned again and again, no matter if I exclude them from scanning. Some graphical popups are also impossible to disable.
There are only a few appliances that I needed Windows for, I will deal with them with other means.
- gruez 4y ago>Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated. It's true that toggling it off in the settings app causes it to get auto-reactivated eventually, but you can still disable it entirely through group policy/registry.
- narag 4y agoFor Windows Home there is no way to disable it. There was some registry setting but it doesn's work anymore. A recent update made it useless. By the way, I'm no hater, but an old user, since 95. They've worked very hard to lose me as a customer.
- rowanG077 4y agoYou can try wine of course. It has pretty good compatability with non-malicous software.
- narag 4y agoI don't know, I only have the drawing tablet and the sound hardware, that hopefully will keep working with the current laptop. For the rest Linux will be enough I guess.