Can Windows Defender be safely removed without ill effect?

dkdubya2 said:
From what I've diligently researched, It seems that removing or completely disabling Win. Defender as it is now, is virtually impossible, since neither the creator, nor any higher-level experienced users have responded to any of the latest posts about it, including mine; I prematurely posted an incorrect answer to my own question recently, because it ended up not working for me.

Let me point-out that personally, I only wish to disable, NOT remove Win. Defender in Win. 10,, since removing IT, or any other component in my opinion, can be far too risky an option for a Win. 10 system that's now even more complex in it's inter-dependancies; I'm afraid that the days of safely & successfully using NTlite or other such tools as a "debloater" & ending up with a working Win. 10 installation, is long gone.

Let's hope that a solution for at least disabling it without having to install another anti-virus program will be forthcoming sooner than later, because at this time, nothing other than installing mbam (which will automatically disable it), will do the trick.
4-19-21
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See my post above
If you wanna rennable. just change the 4 back to a 2 and reboot
 
Since I finally had a successful NtLite Win. 10 1903 ISO made, I chose to go back & risk removing the win. defender component, then ran a newly created test Win. 10 ISO as a VM with no issues.

However, I noticed that in services.msc in the test running Win. 10 VM, it shows WD as running and automatic (& greyed out), even though both the component and security center are clearly gone, so was curious if this is the norm, or should I have tried to disable it under services during the session first, before I removed the component? It was greyed out under services during a subsequent session, so unsure if that would be the case regardless.

I'm a stickler for getting every single thing right, so am willing to go back and start all over again just to do this one tweak if necessary, & most importanly, if allowed.

Thanks.

-dkdubya2
 
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