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How to Disable Real Time Protection Permanently

As a developer who dabbles with web development, Real-Time protection ramps up CPU usage unnecessarily.

Installing Group Policy Editor

First check if you have gpedit.msc installed (by searching the start menu or by using Win + R)

  1. Install gpedit.msc by downloading gpedit-enalber.bat.
  2. Extract the zip from the previous step
  3. Right click gpedit-enabler.bat and Run as administrator.
  4. Go for a coffee break

Disabling Real-Time Protection

I’m not a plagiarizer. You can follow the instructions from trend micro