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How to Permanently Get Rid of the Windows Defender Shield in the System Tray?


NoelC

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No matter what settings are thrown, no matter what tweaker apps have been used, the Windows Defender shield keeps showing back up in the "hidden" box of the notification area icons.

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Call me OCD, but even though the "hidden" box of icons is, well, hidden normally I don't ever want to see the Defender icon anywhere in there.  I'm of the opinion that any resource-using extras I don't need nor want should be removed.  I simply don't want the MSASCuiL.exe process running.

If I tweak the system with WinAero Tweaker, the icon can be hidden after a logoff/logon, but after the next system reboot it's back.  I think what's going on is that Windows Defender is more aggressive than ever in asserting itself.  I have been considering just eliminating it.

DefenderIconDisabled.png

As I mentioned, the above seems to work - until a reboot.  Any ideas what to try to make it stay away permanently?

-Noel

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