[Kaze404]

Windows defender makes Windows 10 absolutely impossible to use on slow (non-SSD) drives. That would be fine if there was an easy way to disable it, but it's literally impossible without digging through guides online. It's insanity that this is allowed.

[kiddico]

You might be interested in OOSU10 (https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) which has options to disable just about everything you can think of, including Defender.

[Kaze404]

Thanks, I'll use it on my gaming VM.

[throwaway888abc]

And windows still "reasonably" works after ?

[wvenable]

Yes! I haven't noticed any difference.

I've started using OOSU10 on all my Windows installs as well as Windows10Debloater. It makes a performance difference on resource constrained devices and for other devices I just like a cleaner Windows install.

[geitir]

It's super easy to disable if you have group policy

[Kaze404]

I know there are ways to disable it, but none are intuitive and/or discoverable by regular people.

Also Group Policy is not available on Windows 10 Home (without hacks anyway).

[rfoo]

I'd say it is easy enough, just paste some random scary command from a quick Google search into the shell. Or maybe my expectations are too low. It is not like I could have known how to disable the insanely stupid ApplePressAndHold thing on macOS without searching online...

[Kaze404]

The problem is the average person wouldn't know what a shell is in the first place, and those are the ones with the least powerful machines that suffer the most from this. They shouldn't have to go through a process that has the possibility of ruining their machine just to get it to work reliably.