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Mighty Joe:
Hi,

After running Tweaking 3.9.7 Windows Defender service has been changed to Automatic and the options to disable are greyed out.  Because I have Windows 10 Home there is no Group Policy.  How can I disable Defender from running?  I use Avira free and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware paid so have no need for Defender.

Thank you

Boggin:
When you run an AV program that doesn't have its own firewall then WD will remain active as the Windows Firewall aspect will remain running.

I use Norton Security which auto disables WD because it has its own firewall.

Are you getting any adverse effects with both running - such as slow ?

Mighty Joe:
Thanks for your quick reply.  I feel my computer is running a bit slower.  Before I ran Tweaking I was able to disable WD through my services.msc  If Tweaking did not grey out the disable selection for WD I don't know what else could have.  Would I have to change a registry setting to disable it? 

Boggin:
There has been another report of a computer running slow after using WR, but use Option 5 to restore the registry to take it back to before you ran WR to see if that improves performance and if you are then able to disable WD.

It is advocated that WR is ran twice to effect the repairs of the first run, but you could also uninstall Avira, using its Uninstaller to see if that also improves performance and then that might determine if the two AV programs are conflicting or if the slow is a result of running WR.

Mighty Joe:
I was hoping there is a manual registry fix I could do just for WD rather than revert all WR changes. WR causing the end user to be unable to disable a service is a huge issue and one I hope your team will correct in the next WR release.

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