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Windows Defender unable to open settings

Xel
By Xel
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Freshly reformatted SSD, with with Windows 10 Pro, and after getting my drivers set up and getting my games back on,  I find myself needing to make an exception to play Vindictus. 

 

Windows Defender however, will not allow me to touch it's settings. Clicking settings will open the page in control panel and then immediately close it again.  Going into control panel myself, and going to Windows Defender page will close the page the second I've clicked on it.

 

In fact, here's a video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUZy_AiQ5E

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@Xel Try to install some Free Anti-virus to override Windows defender? Then you can make the exception or the new anti-virus might not even block it.

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I thought you had to disable it manually beforehand? As you'd need to with non-built in anti-viruses?

 

I've never bothered to use Windows Defender prior to Win10.

I do have Kaspersky on my motherboard utility CD though, I can use.

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I assume you could try manually making an exception in window's firewall directly instead of defender's interface but this is assuming windows 10 supports that. (i'm waiting to update until more bugs are found and patched) 

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/ Tier Breakdown (My understanding)--1 Godly, 2 Great, 3 Good, 4 Average, 5 Meh, 6 Bad, 7 Awful

 

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I assume you could try manually making an exception in window's firewall directly instead of defender's interface but this is assuming windows 10 supports that. (i'm waiting to update until more bugs are found and patched) 

 

Aha, for some reason I had thought they bundled them together.  This multiple control panel stupidity is just... Stupid.

Adding an exception there and hoping that works, however, with defender's control panel still broken like this, I refuse to trust anything it does.

 

Edit: Installing another anti-virus has failed.  Unknown error.

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Yeah if they have security essentials for windows 10 it would likely be better than defender and on 7 I've never got a virus while using it.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/ Tier Breakdown (My understanding)--1 Godly, 2 Great, 3 Good, 4 Average, 5 Meh, 6 Bad, 7 Awful

 

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Windows 7's MSE, is Windows 10's Defender.

 

I've always used MSE on 7,but now this is happening on 10, although, didn't happen when I had upgraded, but only on clean install.

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