[nikbackm]

Regarding the last point.

Windows Defender will normally be active by default on Windows 10 unless you go out of your way to turn it off.

[hypervis0r]

It's not like editing a value in the registry is "going out of your way", it's almost standard Windows practice by now.

[joombaga]

Literally two commands in an elevated command prompt

    sc config WinDefend start= disabled
    sc stop WinDefend