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Given that I use my Windows machine solely for gaming these days, the fact that I am not allowed to disable the real time virus scan permanently is a mark against Windows being a well made system. It's a notable loss of control over my system.

> The spying "features" can all be disabled

I've yet to find a way to disable the telemetry on a non-enterprise system. I'd appreciate any links to instructions on how to do this.

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To disable real time virus scan permanently you can boot into safe mode and then rename/delete C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe

I appreciate knowing how to do this, but I don't think booting into safe mode and deleting an exe counts as being "allowed" to disable scanning. It's a workaround, but definitely not a solution from MS.

Ouch. That's worse than I thought. Well, one more item in the "risks" column; not that it matters anymore (being 1001th such item, where the tipping point was at 200 ;)).

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