Thanks SO much..really appreciate all your help. I'll have a thorough look at all this later when I get home from work. Cheers!

 

I'm now living without Defender – should I ever get infected, I've run backup software and then back up my entire C drive using an emergency disk. Yes, you read that right, I don't have any antivirus software on my PC. Enough of the Microsoft terror, and I'm not getting any updates that constantly ruin my PC.

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GitHub - ionuttbara/windows-defender-remover:
A tool which is uses to remove Windows Defender in Windows 8.x, Windows 10 (every version) and Windows 11.
https://github.com/ionuttbara/windows-defender-remover

 

See you later, have a nice evening!

 

Thanks again!

 

R2R of course is well-trusted, and MOST things on Russian site are fine, but wise to let them sit a while and also to read comments (even Google translate gives enough clues. If there is something wrong there will be big reaction, so good for troubleshooting little issues.
If something lasts there for any length of time it's pretty sure to be safe.

It is NORMAL on WIndows 11 for R2R keygens to just NOT open if Windows Defender "Real-time Protection" is ON.
I just manually tested it to be sure, as I have 2 scripts to turn it OFF & ON while running keygens.
A while ago, Defender would give a warning, but on my setup currently there is no indication of a problem, but the keygen just does not run.

I know you have already done this, but I would suggest checking again that setting again while you run the keygens:
Real-time protection : OFF

With that setting, I am able to run R2R keygen even in my User\Downloads folder, and that is NOT an excluded folder.
(Normally they are run on an excluded DRIVE, but Defender will STILL block them (with no notification) if "Real-time" protection is ON.

I moved they keygen to my downloads folder just as an additional test.
I did not even turn Tamper Protection to OFF, but I normally do leave it off so I can run 2 scripts that turn ON and OFF "Real-time Protection".

Most suggested things are fine to try (and you may fix some unknown trouble), but Windows Defender does not cause trouble for most 'alternative' software as long as "Realtime Protection" is disabled during install.
There are some programs whose Program Files folders need to be EXCLUDED from Windows Defender ( but I can't recall which ones - not using them now).
I exclude in Defender's settings ALL my drives except my OS drive, as I only download trusted stuff to those drives and I do backups frequently.
On my Win10 setup I excluded all of Program Files, and many folders for ProgramData, AppData, etc...
But on this Win11 I have not bothered to. I HAVE excluded certain processes for potential performance reasons.
I did it on Win10 mostly in hopes of improving performance, but I did not really notice anything.

Really the only thing I worry about is the folders/processes my browser uses, and normal Windows USER Downloads folder, and for THAT reason I do not remove Defender totally.

 

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I downloaded it, unpacked it, installed it, and registered it. It works without any problems.