For one thing, setting that policy merits a malware detection in defender itself!

https://twitter.com/Karunamon/status/1413280394439397376

Totally removing defender as TI is the only option if you dont want it turning itself back on arbitrarily. I went through this hell yesterday for about 3 hours.

>Totally removing defender as TI is the only option if you dont want it turning itself back on arbitrarily

I disabled it via group policy 2 years ago and just checked, still disabled.

It was working like that before, but on latest updates it automatically turns on every restart (or so).

I don't really need to remove it, only disable it because it visibly slows down machine x2-x10 depending on what you do.

> It was working like that before, but on latest updates it automatically turns on every restart (or so).

that's if you disable through the normal settings interface. the group policy settings stick, although you might have to turn off "tamper protection" first before applying the group policy.

Do you have any handy script for that? I am not going to click around for sure.

What version/edition of Win10 are you on?

LTSC

Hell is the right word for it.

Because he wants to removed unwanted software from his machine, not disable it. It's not dissimilar to being unable to remove bundled software on android.

What's the difference, that you save 200MB of disk space?

>It's not dissimilar to being unable to remove bundled software on android.

It actually makes less sense on android since bundled apps are typically installed on the /system partition, which means they don't really take up any disk space (the space allocated to the /system partition is the same regardless of whether the app is there or not).