Moreover the necessary tricks to disable it is annoyingĭefender sucks.I might post my own mini tutorial somewhere later, but there is still a lot of control over defender, and fully disabling it I have discovered is kind of like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly.Į.g. Whenever Defender thinks (in a copy or move operation) a file is evil it deletes it silently.ĭefender should at least prompt the user. Windows 20H2 build 19042.985 - works fine, no trickery needed, gpedit disables Windows Defender (this update was offered, to me at least, today while struggle with version 19042.964 encountered yesterday). Repeat this until Windows Defender no longer auto start (in my case I had to do this 3-4 times).Ĭredit: Cannot disable Microsoft Defender Antivirus via group policy on 20H2 : Windows10TechSupport Win 20H2 build 19042.964 - when using gpedit to disable Defender after applying settings or restarting PC settings will revert back to 'Not configured' in gpedit and Defender will still works. There is a bug in, apparently, gpedit (or somewhere else) that prevent gpedit settings to stick: The goal was to disable Defender using group policy (gpedit) so no third party software (with do works) and this was on Windows 20H2.

I was struggling with disabling defender so for the prosperity I will write my findings and solution.

How to turn off antivirus on pc