December 23, 2016
Disabling Defender, Telemetry & Windows Update Reboot
Disable Telemetry
- Ctrl + R
- Type regedit.exe and hit enter.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DiagTrack
- Set
Start
to4
(Disabled)3
(Manual)2
(automatic) - stop-service diagtrack
- set-service diagtrack -startuptype disabled
Disable Auto Reboot on Windows Update
- Ctrl + R
- Type regedit.exe and hit enter.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
- If you don’t have the AU key, create it in the WindowsUpdate.
- Create a new DWORD-32 value.
- Name it NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers.
- Double-click it, type 1 and click OK:
Disable Windows Defender
- Ctrl + R
- Type regedit.exe and hit enter.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender
- If you see the preference DisableAntiSpyware on the right double-click on it and set it to 1 to disable Windows Defender.
- If the preference does not exist, right-click on Windows Defender and select New > Dword (32-bit) Value, and name it DisableAntiSpyware.