SOLVED Can I turn off windows Defender?

[yodap]

MSE updated to a new version last week but you would have known that or been informed as I was.

Win Defender did not auto start up for me after the update.

 

[Mychael]

What cat said, but it's under administrator.

Hmmm, dunno As I'm the only account on the machine and set myself up for full access would not everything I do be as administrator?

Never got any warning messages on boot up, only discovered it at all 'cos I was looking around in the action centre and there was the message about running ESET and Defender at the same time.

 

[catilley1092]

I recently removed MSE (2.0) on one of my Win 7 partitions, but Defender didn't restart, nor do I want it to. I'm trying to get Comodo to work for me there, it's unlike any AV that I used before.

I'm just glad that Defender didn't switch back on, as I'm being flagged constantly on trusted apps.

Cat

 

[davehc]

MSE updated to a new version last week but you would have known that or been informed as I was.

Win Defender did not auto start up for me after the update.

Curious.
What update was that.
I am running ver 2.0.657.0, which I received in mid december last year. I didn't receive any notificationrecently of a newer version?

 

[yodap]

That's the version I was updated to. The update came from the program itself not Windows update . My 2 folding machines run 24/7 and I noticed the pop-ups there first when I got back from my trip. The first notifications may have come a week earlier. My office computer runs Avira so my wife would not have noticed anything. The other one I needed to check was my XP dual-boot and sure enough MSE wanted to update that.

Mychael, I meant to say there is an actual administrator tab in the program where the option is. I know you're the administrator of your machine.