Disable Windows Defender | Speed up your computer

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July 8, 2008

Vista comes with Microsoft’s own anti-spyware tool installed as standard. Windows Defender does a reasonable job of keeping your system free from infection, but it also slows it down. You can free up valueable resources by using Spyware Terminator instead.

Install the program and disable Windows Defender by going to Start, All Programs, Windows Defender. Click Tools, then Options. Scroll down, untick everything and click Save. Vista will flash up a Windows Security Alert in the System Tray. Double-click this to load the Security Center. The Malware Protection strip will be red. Click the down arrow to open it. Underneath, where it says ‘Windows Defender is turned off’, click ‘Show me my available options’ then select ‘I have an antispyware program that I’ll monitor myself’.

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