[saurik]

It was really infuriating to disable, FWIW. I spent hours fighting with it one day. The UI doesn't let you fully disable it: you have to use registry keys and the group policy editor. The end result has this hilarious property where it is flagging the fact that I disabled it as tampering that might indicate malware? I don't know if I even can disable that part... and I apparently didn't even succeed fully anyway as I now am getting occasional notifications saying Defender did a scan and I am like "as far as I can tell, Defender us fully off" :/. At least I did--as far as I have so far been able to tell--succeed in disabling the "real-time" thing that kept "quarantining" my files.

[rootw0rm]

should only take a moment in the group policy editor. you can actually filter settings by name to zero in on things quickly.

the only real cosmetic change i can see is for instance on the virus & threat protection page in windows 10, it says in red at the top of the window:

Your Virus & threat protection is managed by your organization.

[DarkmSparks]

windows defender was one of the (many) reasons I gave up on windows and replaced the last windows machine I had with a Mac Mini. (FC33 on my main)

Very similar experience here, coupled with windows defender randomly switching itself back on and quaranteening half my (completely benign) development folder.

The last time it did that I spent an entire afternoon trying to get it disabled and get my files back onto the machine with only limited success.

I think it may be a windows home vs windows professional thing.

But rather than wrestle with it further I just gave up. Only thing I had left that really needed windows was word and excel which ironically actually now work better and crash less on the mac mini than they ever did on windows.

[DarkmSparks]

I assume by the downvotes its not a home vs professional issue?

In which case Im more glad i didnt waste money on the professional version, than I am sorry you would prefer my personal experience be kept quiet.

[dataflow]

> I don't know if I even can disable that part

It's tamper protection, you can disable it. (I hate it too.)

[GoblinSlayer]

Try to uninstall it.