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Ok, how about this idea (so far on W10 it works)
1.Rename all the Defender Folders by adding letters art the beginning of the folder name and/or at the end of the folders name to confuse the O/S. There are multiple folders in at least 3 locations.
OR-
Rename all the the exc's in all the Defender folders by adding text to just the extension; .exeold is what I use. You can also rename the name of the .exe by adding 'old' or something else; a number for example. Yes it's a bit tedious and you really have to search for all the folders (3 in the root of 'C' and buried in that damn Users folder which is the worst to find anything.
This way, everything is still there, nothing was deleted, just isolated.
BUT, you have to do this from another drive w/ Windows loaded, either another SSD/HDD or a bootable Thumb drive or a bootable DVD since those files are all protected when the O/S is active.
What I haven't done yet is to move (cut & paste) those folders somewhere else (in another drive) with notes where each one was moved from. IOW's basically deleting them from the O/S even thou they aren't deleted. If it's found that something else needs Defender to run which in W10 I haven't found yet, they can be restored by a reverse C&P assuming you have notes where everything goes.Renaming those folders can be almost anything you want, just keep it consistent. A single word or numbers. Renaming the exe's name with a numbers or letters will group the files together so you can find them easier. Folders aren't so bad, there are less of them. Of course, getting rid of them using NT Lite would be better.
I started doing this with certain programs to disable certain functions w/o preventing the program from running; auto updates for example. But sometimes that doesn't work because the writer of the program was a step ahead of me.
1.Rename all the Defender Folders by adding letters art the beginning of the folder name and/or at the end of the folders name to confuse the O/S. There are multiple folders in at least 3 locations.
OR-
Rename all the the exc's in all the Defender folders by adding text to just the extension; .exeold is what I use. You can also rename the name of the .exe by adding 'old' or something else; a number for example. Yes it's a bit tedious and you really have to search for all the folders (3 in the root of 'C' and buried in that damn Users folder which is the worst to find anything.
This way, everything is still there, nothing was deleted, just isolated.
BUT, you have to do this from another drive w/ Windows loaded, either another SSD/HDD or a bootable Thumb drive or a bootable DVD since those files are all protected when the O/S is active.
What I haven't done yet is to move (cut & paste) those folders somewhere else (in another drive) with notes where each one was moved from. IOW's basically deleting them from the O/S even thou they aren't deleted. If it's found that something else needs Defender to run which in W10 I haven't found yet, they can be restored by a reverse C&P assuming you have notes where everything goes.Renaming those folders can be almost anything you want, just keep it consistent. A single word or numbers. Renaming the exe's name with a numbers or letters will group the files together so you can find them easier. Folders aren't so bad, there are less of them. Of course, getting rid of them using NT Lite would be better.
I started doing this with certain programs to disable certain functions w/o preventing the program from running; auto updates for example. But sometimes that doesn't work because the writer of the program was a step ahead of me.
