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it’s possible for you to also use it to control what applications run at startup.
We can make other adjustments from here as well.
Uncheck the box for “use real-time protection”.
This can be especially helpful on a laptop, where every little bit of tweaking helps battery life.
If you have automatic updates set you won’t need to worry about updating the protection database.
Windows Defender actually allows us several options for scans.
ConclusionWindows Defender has come a long way since its inception.
There are other tweaks we can utilize as well.
