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by Osiris 1172 days ago
It used to be possible to disable real-time protection but know it’s not. The UI toggle is only for a limited time and the Group Policy option doesn’t work anymore.
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It appears you would like to take a trip into the windows dark forest.

Complete removal of windows defender on retail OS is feasible if you can figure out how to elevate a prompt to trusted installer. Alternatively, if you run Windows Server, you can use Remove-WindowsFeature to get it gone for good.

I have a script that accomplishes this, but I hesitate to share it because I don't want some asshole at Microsoft to patch it.

The gpedit option to disable the real time component continues to work. The toggle for disabling all of it doesn’t.
Try `Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true` from admin powershell.