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Windows Defender Won't Turn Off After Running Repair
Boggin:
Why did you need to run WR ?
I'll pass on your findings to Shane, but have you tried what I've suggested - you can always run the repairs again.
EDIT - Can you use Option 5 to restore the registry and then run the repairs with v3.9.9 to see if you get the same problem.
Mighty Joe:
I'll try Option 5 then run 3.9.9 later tonight. You mentioned earlier about running the repair twice in a row? That's the first I head that suggestion but I'll do that and report back to you.
Thanks Boggin
Mighty Joe:
I restored my registry back three days via Option 5, then reran WR, ignoring the option to "restore Windows services to the default level". My WD remains greyed out, unable to disable it.
Boggin:
I haven't had a reply back from Shane on this yet but from what I've found, the only option to disable WD is by using the Group Policy Editor which isn't available in Win 10 Home - you need Win 10 Pro.
However, this article suggests a 3rd party program can do it for you if you want to give that a go, which may override what is greying it out.
http://winaero.com/blog/disable-or-enable-windows-defender-in-windows-10/
You may also be able to disable the Windows Defender services by going Start - type services.msc and press enter.
Scroll down where you will see three of them.
In mine they are set to Manual, but I don't know if that is because I have Norton Security.
Click on each and a description of what each does will appear in the upper left pane.
Right click on each and select Properties then use the dropdown to change its status to Disabled - Apply - Stop - OK - File - Exit then reboot and then you can check its status where you would normally be able to turn it off.
I'm not sure if you would get any nags that it was disabled, but you may have to manually enable Windows Firewall to supplement Avira.
Mighty Joe:
Thanks for the heads up on Winaero Tweaker. It had several useful tweaks which I implemented. It did disable WD which is good however it locked it on "manual"; the ability to change the status is still greyed out.
I'd really like to get WD back to where it remains disabled but allows me to change the status of it if I want just as with other services. I may do a system restore at some point because I'm not sure what else can be done.
While you're awaiting a reply from Shane maybe you can ask him as well if there's a way that in future releases, he can make the logs notate which errors may be benign. For instance, I have a lot of "access is denied" in my "services set permissions" log and I'm not sure which if any are legit problems that need attention and which are simply inherent to Windows 10 and/or Avira.
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