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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1020 on: November 26, 2015, 11:07:34 PM »
Average user and wanna get rid of crapware, MS may not help you, only if you are an enterprise user then it is another story:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2015/11/25/shields-up-on-potentially-unwanted-applications-in-your-enterprise.aspx

Oh and remember the issues with DiagTrack, it has not gone away - it just got renamed as "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry", read: https://tweakhound.com/2015/11/18/win10-diagnostics-tracking-service-gone/

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That registry hack will also work on Pro and Home version of Windows 10 :)
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1021 on: November 27, 2015, 11:32:15 AM »
The code hack is
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  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\MpEngine] "MpEnablePus"=dword:00000001
Save as txt file then change in to reg file and execute with a click and you have changed windows into an "adware-killer".

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P.S. Always make a copy of the registry first in case something goes wrong while changing these values.  ;)
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1022 on: November 27, 2015, 01:45:14 PM »
The code hack is
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  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\MpEngine] "MpEnablePus"=dword:00000001
Save as txt file then change in to reg file and execute with a click and you have changed windows into an "adware-killer".

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P.S. Always make a copy of the registry first in case something goes wrong while changing these values.  ;)

Didnt take any backup of my registry nor of my VMs registry :) Still works fine.
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1023 on: November 27, 2015, 03:44:05 PM »
The code hack is
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  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\MpEngine] "MpEnablePus"=dword:00000001
Save as txt file then change in to reg file and execute with a click and you have changed windows into an "adware-killer".
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Isn't there a downside to this, surely that means you have to have windows defender (or a background service/engine) running to get this benefit. When we are essentially saying disable windows defender if installing avast or 3rd party AV (even windows 10 is meant to disable WD if a 3rd party AV is installed).
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1024 on: November 27, 2015, 03:59:17 PM »
Average user and wanna get rid of crapware, MS may not help you, only if you are an enterprise user then it is another story:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2015/11/25/shields-up-on-potentially-unwanted-applications-in-your-enterprise.aspx

Oh and remember the issues with DiagTrack, it has not gone away - it just got renamed as "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry", read: https://tweakhound.com/2015/11/18/win10-diagnostics-tracking-service-gone/

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So what does this do for me if I'm already using Avast, Avast's OnlineSecurity, Malwarebytes and Unchecky and always use custom installs ???
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1025 on: November 27, 2015, 05:23:05 PM »
Hi DavidR,

You and bob3160 are 100% right.
Just wanted to give it here for completeness. I have Windows defender disabled as this should be for the Avast settings.
Steven Winderlich mentions something, but forgets to mention that.
No bob3160, DavidR and polonus etc. do not need this because they have Avast AV resident security.
So for all of us keep windows defender disabled.

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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1026 on: November 27, 2015, 05:25:46 PM »
Hi DavidR,

You and bob3160 are 100% right.
Just wanted to give it here for completeness. I have Windows defender disabled as this should be for the Avast settings.
Steven Winderlich mentions something, but forgets to mention that.
No bob3160, DavidR and polonus etc. do not need this because they have Avast AV resident security.
So for all of us keep windows defender disabled.

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When you install Avast on Windows 10, Defender is automatically disabled. :)
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1027 on: November 27, 2015, 05:46:00 PM »

Steven Winderlich mentions something, but forgets to mention that.

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For us Avast users its pointless, but for all the Defender users its a good option :)
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1028 on: November 27, 2015, 06:41:49 PM »

Steven Winderlich mentions something, but forgets to mention that.

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For us Avast users its pointless, but for all the Defender users its a good option :)
How many of those are you going to find on this forum ??? :)
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1029 on: November 27, 2015, 07:59:36 PM »
Hi DavidR,

You and bob3160 are 100% right.
Just wanted to give it here for completeness. I have Windows defender disabled as this should be for the Avast settings.
Steven Winderlich mentions something, but forgets to mention that.
No bob3160, DavidR and polonus etc. do not need this because they have Avast AV resident security.
So for all of us keep windows defender disabled.

polonus
When you install Avast on Windows 10, Defender is automatically disabled. :)

Yes, I'm aware of that, but this so called work around is using what appears to be a WD element 'MpEngine' so something of WD would be running when windows 10 and savvy users would have already disabled it. So for me this hack is Pointless.
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1030 on: November 28, 2015, 03:53:14 AM »
Still a good hack to have and Defender doesn't have to be running to add it, many users like myself run multiple systems with numerous AV's, Defender being one of them :)

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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1031 on: November 28, 2015, 06:37:50 PM »
Still a good hack to have and Defender doesn't have to be running to add it, many users like myself run multiple systems with numerous AV's, Defender being one of them :)
Sorry but those that come here are usually Avast users. I'd consider this a bit off-topic. :)
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1032 on: November 28, 2015, 07:00:18 PM »

For us Avast users its pointless, but for all the Defender users its a good option :)

WD was not auto-disabled in Win10 for me.
I had to do a manual disable of Windows Defender.  ??? ::) ???

But when I installed CFW w/D+ the Windows Firewall did get disabled by CFW.  8)
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1033 on: November 28, 2015, 07:31:12 PM »

For us Avast users its pointless, but for all the Defender users its a good option :)

WD was not auto-disabled in Win10 for me.
I had to do a manual disable of Windows Defender.  ??? ::) ???

But when I installed CFW w/D+ the Windows Firewall did get disabled by CFW.  8)
Windows Defender and Windows Firewall ??? ??? Two different animals ???
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Re: Windows 10 - Everything you Need and Want to Know
« Reply #1034 on: November 28, 2015, 10:00:32 PM »
With some AV's, that MPCmd thing still runs even when Defender is disabled. I don't know if it does for all but I know for a fact that it did when I was using Bitdefender Free.

The file is MpCmdRun.exe and it appears that what is does is sense if another AV is installed or running. If no other AV is found, it turns Defender back on. That seems like an excellent feature that ensures that you have some kind of protection if your solution of choice somehow stops working. It appears to run every time something needs to be scanned. It's only present in Win 8.1 and 10.
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