Is your antivirus preventing you from completing important tasks? We’ll walk you through how to temporarily disable your antivirus and why you may need to.

Disable virus protection The Microsoft Defender Antivirus allows you to turn off real-time protection using a specific command in case you have to perform an action conflicting with the anti-malware.

If you want to enable or disable Dev Drive Protection in Windows 11 using Windows Security and Registry Editor, check this guide.