Run Windows Security & Defender together?

[Frederick J. Barnett]

I recently switched my anti-virus to the Windows Security
Essentials. I was wondering if I need to turn Defender back on too?
The WSE didn't say either way.


Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/
"Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone

 

[Peter Taylor]

I recently switched my anti-virus to the Windows Security
Essentials. I was wondering if I need to turn Defender back on too?

Good idea.

The WSE didn't say either way.

It's still a good idea.

 

[Chris Sidener]

Good idea.


It's still a good idea.

MSE turns Defender off. It's redundant.

Chris

 

[Bruce Hagen]

I recently switched my anti-virus to the Windows Security
Essentials. I was wondering if I need to turn Defender back on too?
The WSE didn't say either way.


Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/
"Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get
done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone

No. MSE includes the properties of Windows Defender and will just shut it
back down again as it is now redundant. You may as well remove WD from
your machine.

 

[Peter Taylor]

MSE turns Defender off. It's redundant.

Chris

Oh, I didn't know that. You learn something new every day

 

[Ken Blake]

I recently switched my anti-virus to the Windows Security
Essentials. I was wondering if I need to turn Defender back on too?

You can't (and wouldn't need to if you could).

Windows Security Essentials turns Defender off, because its
capabilities are built into Windows Security Essentials.

 

[Frederick J. Barnett]

That's what I wanted to know.

Thanks to everyone who replied.


Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/
"Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone

 

[DGDevin]

You can't (and wouldn't need to if you could).

Windows Security Essentials turns Defender off, because its
capabilities are built into Windows Security Essentials.

I was able to turn on Defender today via Action Center (with Security
Essentials running), but it was turned off again when I started the computer
later, which is apparently just as well. It would be nice if MS changed the
Defender section in Control Panel to read that Defender is automatically
turned off when Security Essentials is installed.

 

[Ken Blake]

It would be nice if MS changed the
Defender section in Control Panel to read that Defender is automatically
turned off when Security Essentials is installed.

I agree!

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I agree!

Me, three. Is there any way to uninstall Defender, or is it integrated
into Security Essentials when that is installed?

 

[Ken Blake]

Me, three. Is there any way to uninstall Defender, or is it integrated
into Security Essentials when that is installed?

As I understand it, it's not that it itself is integrated into
Microsoft Security Essentials, but that Microsoft Security Essentials
contains the same functionality. So as far as I know, there's no way
to turn off that functionality in Microsoft Security Essentials.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

As I understand it, it's not that it itself is integrated into
Microsoft Security Essentials, but that Microsoft Security Essentials
contains the same functionality. So as far as I know, there's no way
to turn off that functionality in Microsoft Security Essentials.

That I get. What I am asking is if Defender is an independent
applications which can be uninstalled since MSE has taken over the job.
Defender is disabled by MSE, so why leave it installed?

 

[Ken Blake]

Ken Blake wrote:

That I get. What I am asking is if Defender is an independent
applications which can be uninstalled since MSE has taken over the job.
Defender is disabled by MSE, so why leave it installed?

Ah, I understand now. Sorry, I misunderstood you.

As far as I know, no, there's no way to uninstall it, and it's part of
Windows 7. But leaving it unused but installed doesn't bother me at
all. It uses, at most, just a few pennies worth of disk space.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

That I get. What I am asking is if Defender is an independent
applications which can be uninstalled since MSE has taken over the job.
Defender is disabled by MSE, so why leave it installed?
--
Crash

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~

If you have Windows Defender downloaded as a separate program, then yes,
you can remove it.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Ah, I understand now. Sorry, I misunderstood you.

As far as I know, no, there's no way to uninstall it, and it's part of
Windows 7. But leaving it unused but installed doesn't bother me at
all. It uses, at most, just a few pennies worth of disk space.

Yeah, but I'm terminally anal.