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Yeah, unfortunately you need to do it with group policy.

• Dylan16807 3y ago
  As far as I can tell they've removed the ability to turn off real-time scanning with group policy, so you have to disable the entire thing and not get on-demand or scheduled or download scans.
  • eppsilon 3y ago
    Defender will disable itself if it detects another AV product is installed...maybe someone should make one that acts as a no-op AV scanner.
  • arsome 3y ago
    Seems to be working for me still, though I set the GPO back on Win10 and it carried over to Win11 through an upgrade. I see some reports of needing to disable tamper protection first but should still work.
    • dataflow 3y ago
      Ah yes, you need to disable tamper protection as well. (Which is kind of strange... if a virus can disable the first one can't it also disable the second one??)