Comments on: How To Uninstall, Remove, Or Disable Windows Defender In Windows 7

By: biill thorton

biill thorton — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:47:46 +0000

As an aside when I downloaded and installed Essentials it automatically turned off Defender and I have not had any issues, no messages or conflicts. just noting. I am running windows 7

By: biill thorton

biill thorton — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:37:01 +0000

Shreya
Do a restore to a previous date before your problem started to get rid of the adware/malware then go to microsoft and install Microsoft ESSENTIAlSt’s free and it has worked well for me.

By: RegLinUsr

RegLinUsr — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:34:15 +0000

@Shreya:

It would seem that your system has been compromised and hijacked by a virus, worm and/or trojan. Windows Defender is part of the current Windows operating system and does not cost anything. Recommendation… complete reinstall of Windows. Do not try to “clean” your system as this is something that is quite the difficult task even from a professional point-of-view and not recommended. I personally recommend using a quality antivirus/antimalware program; such as, ESET’s NOD32 but if you can’t afford that then at least install Microsoft’s Security Essentials after the clean reinstall. Its not the greatest but its better than running your system without anything protecting it.

By: Shreya

Shreya — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:35:27 +0000

I have been using Windows 7 for a long time, and I had no idea that it had ‘Windows Defender’ running. Today, it suddenly came up with it, saying that there is dangerous software on my computer. When I say remove, it asks me to pay $79.99.

Do I have to pay this, or can I just ignore the threats? Is there anything else I can do? Someone, pleeeese help? I’m going mad!!!

By: Shreya

Shreya — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:32:25 +0000

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:31:20 +0000

Thanks Jeremy. Thanks to your post, here is what I did:

Start –> Run –> regedit

Search for “MSASCui.exe – hide”

Delete the registry entry found.

Reboot to test!

By: Dave Shears

Dave Shears — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:34:12 +0000

BTW, as a further bit of useful info to this thread, the Registry key to look for in order to permanently remove Microsoft’s annoying Windows Defender Nag screen at startup is:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

and the value you are looking for is:

“%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe – hide”.

By: Sierra

Sierra — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:32:09 +0000

Jeremy, thanks so much for the tip. It definitely solved my problem of various programs giving me annoying messages on start-up.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:48:01 +0000

Guys, forget this article. All you wanna do is get rid of those darn nag screens on startup, right?

Here’s what you really gotta do:

1.Go to Start,type ‘msconfig’ without the quotes.

2.When msconfig comes up, click the startup tab.

3.Find ‘Microsoft Windows Operating System’ and look across for the Command section. Mouse over ‘Microsoft Windows OS’s command, and if it says something about defender, uncheck it and hit OK.

Restart your computer, and you won’t see any nag screens anymore.

By: fredbisard

fredbisard — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:40:06 +0000

don’t know what everyone’s problem with defender is here. must be total noobs, or something.

disabling defender does EXACTLY that and DOES NOT update itself afterward!

you can’t remove it either, at least not safely.