Corona Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 When I got my new pooter last year I eventually installed Microsoft Security Essentials. Then I turned on Windows Defender and things went a little caacaa coocoo. So I turned off Defender. I don't get why 2 MS apps would be so mean to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 21, 2011 Moderators Share Posted February 21, 2011 Microsoft Security Essentials is supposed to disable Windows Defender. See here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 Ah. Thanks Andavari. I guess it did disable Defender when I installed it but then I tried to turn it back on. Took a bit of Catch22 anti-manipulating to get it turned back off again. It was weird. MSE should have something very big and prominent displayed about Defender conflicts before beginning/continuing installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winapp2.ini Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 AFAIK MSE is supposed to 'replace' defender as your system protection, but I may be wrong. I think defender is lame anyhows winapp2.ini additions thread winapp2.ini github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted February 22, 2011 Moderators Share Posted February 22, 2011 I think defender is lame anyhows At least MSE uninstalls it on XP, only disable for newer OSes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Andavaris' link mentioned that 64-bit Windows don't have any option to uninstall Defender so the best it could do was deactivate it. But I did not know that. I had no way of knowing that. Thus the big plastered billboard suggestion. Oh, hi Andavari! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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