How to Enable Windows Defender in Windows 7 – How to turn Windows Defender on Windows 7- Free & Easy

i have a question im hoping you will be able to answer seeing as this is a 4 year old video. i had some malware on my PC that piggybacked off a legit application while i had windows defender. It never told me anything was wrong but i assume thats normal with sneaky malware. The only way i could get the malware off my PC (not even sure if its totally gone) was to go back to a restore point. All this aside i decided to download AVG free antivirus as you have installed but I failed to realize having both active was an issue (i'm not sure if windows defender was even active during this issue i was having with AVG but i literally just uninstalled AVG so i cannot really check). The issue i was having was very odd. If i had chrome open at the same time as a video game and alt-tabbed to Chrome (not sure if this was a necessary step for the issue to happen but i always did this) the youtube video i was playing would buffer infinitely and i could not access any other websites as if my internet was out. This would also crash the game i was playing and I needed to end the process in task manager. I would usually go to my router and reset it and the issue was gone (game still crashed but my chrome continued to work) or sometimes ending the game process would then allow chrome to begin working again. Is this an issue with Windows Defender conflicting with AVG or is this potentially the malware still affecting my PC? While i'm at it ill give my specs and ask if AVG is better than Windows Defender.

Windows 7
intel core i5-4430 cpu 3.GHz quad core
16gb RAM
64-bit
NVIDIA GTX 950 GPU

windows can not acess the specified device,path,or file……how to solve this

Since I reinstalled Win7 on my laptop a few weeks ago, Defender has been running, but nothing in the QuickLaunch/Notification area like before. How to rectify that?

When I try to turn it on it says
This program is blocked by group policy. Help plz

Thanks so much it helped a lot 🙂

How do I know if there's another AntiVirus Program running?

oof & rip Windows 7. will be gone next yr (sad face) ☹

Hm crud. Mine is out of date 😐

how to do that circle in your arrow

blocked by group policy so i cant turn on D:

My husband was my computer geek, but he died unexpectedly a few years ago. My desktop and old laptop are both now having problems. Since hubby was the Administrator, is there a way to bypass or override? I'm 67 and not computer savvy.

thanks noe i can download my game exploits

I cant fix it because It says it's blocked by group policy

thanks

Did'nt work for me code error comes up and its yellow??

"Action Center cannot turn on Windows Defender. Please try again." How to fix this on Windows 7?

my problem is, that once i click on windows defender, it does not open, it just pops up a window that tells me to turn on windows defender, but it will not turn on, it just gets stuck loading forever without ever turning on. the things that it depends on in order to run are running, so thats not an issue, an windows security center is running so thats not affecting it. in other words, i am at a loss as to why my windows defender will not run. also, at Miels Lyck, my MSE will not work either, so what is wrong with my computer. why will the security programs not run?

Can someone explain what's better. Windows Firewall, Norton Internet Security or Windows defender??????

I have Malwarebytes on my computer. When I clicked on AVG free to clean, it says iAVG was not protecting my computer. I just cleaned with AVG and it says your browser is secure. Should I leave AVG off?

This is frusrating..
my WD says, "The Specific service does not exist as an Installed Service (Error Code:0x80070424)"

Thanks Bro….