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<blockquote data-quote="Windows_Security" data-source="post: 827742" data-attributes="member: 50782">Windows 10 is really great. With Windows Defender on highest settings (use Configure Defender) and Software Restriction Policies (use Hard_Configurator with profile Windows_Security) only blocking file formats with hidden code (no executables, that is why you need to se WD on highest protection settings)&nbsp; you can runs as admin without any functional loss and have great protection. You really don&#039;t need third party AV or any other additional protection.I put it on all family members PC when they ask me to help setup their PC&#039;s. I also tell them to use Edge and add&nbsp; Windows Defender Exploit protection setting called Code Integrity Guard for current Edge (processes MicrosoftEdge.exe and MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe) and future Chromiun based Edge (process msedge.exe). This makes current (old) Edge and future (new) Edge-chromium the safest browsers around (even safer than Chrome). The other benefit of using Edge is that Microsoft cheats and pre-loads Edge at system start (you can check that it cold-starts much faster than Chrome or Firefox).So unless Windows Defender slows your PC down to a crawl (even on my tablet with a weak intel Atom Z3740 Windows Defender is the &#039;fastest&#039; less CPU hungry AV), you really don&#039;t need to disable AV and risk shoot-in-the-foot errors. Even on the Intel Atom running without antivirus only reduces program start of Chrome with 0.2 seconds. So why bother?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Windows_Security, post: 827742, member: 50782"] Windows 10 is really great. With Windows Defender on highest settings (use Configure Defender) and Software Restriction Policies (use Hard_Configurator with profile Windows_Security) only blocking file formats with hidden code (no executables, that is why you need to se WD on highest protection settings) you can runs as admin without any functional loss and have great protection. You really don't need third party AV or any other additional protection. I put it on all family members PC when they ask me to help setup their PC's. I also tell them to use Edge and add Windows Defender Exploit protection setting called Code Integrity Guard for current Edge (processes MicrosoftEdge.exe and MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe) and future Chromiun based Edge (process msedge.exe). This makes current (old) Edge and future (new) Edge-chromium the safest browsers around (even safer than Chrome). The other benefit of using Edge is that Microsoft cheats and pre-loads Edge at system start (you can check that it cold-starts much faster than Chrome or Firefox). So unless Windows Defender slows your PC down to a crawl (even on my tablet with a weak intel Atom Z3740 Windows Defender is the 'fastest' less CPU hungry AV), you really don't need to disable AV and risk shoot-in-the-foot errors. Even on the Intel Atom running without antivirus only reduces program start of Chrome with 0.2 seconds. So why bother? [/QUOTE]

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