In this article, I’ll be showing you how you can disable Windows Defender on your Windows 11.

Before we get started, just a disclaimer: This might be a little different compared to what you are used to before when you are disabling a Windows Defender or Windows Security on Windows 10 as Windows 11 has tighter security measures before you can actually disable it.

Now, let’s get started!

First, go ahead to the Start menu and type in the search bar “System Configuration” and open that app. We are going to be booting a safe mode boot option, so go the Boot tab. You will see the Boot options so make sure to check the Safe boot and set it as minimal. Hit the apply button and ok button.

After that, you just have to click “Exit without restart” just to confirm that the Windows Security is currently running on the computer. You may go back to the start menu and look for the Windows Security app.

As you will see, the Virus & threat protection will show that it is turned on. Hence, you will need to restart your computer so we can disable that Windows Security feature on our Windows 11.

After restarting your computer, you will now be put in the Safe mode on your Windows 11. So you can now go ahead and change some settings on the registry.

Disable Windows Defender Using Registry

Go to the Start menu, right-click on it and select the run option. Type there “regedit“, hit the ok button, and you’ll be shown the Registry Editor window. You’ll now go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder and proceed to the SYSTEM folder. Then, look for the CurrentControlSet folder and under that is the Services folder, where we will be disabling particular services.

Under the Services folder, we are going to scroll down until we find the “Sense“. Click on it and we are going to be changing the Start key, which you’ll find on the right side. Open the Start key and change the value to “4” under the hexadecimal base and hit the ok button. These particular steps will be repeated as we go on.

Back to the left side column, we are going to be looking for the “WdBoot” folder. Same as before, we are going to click the Start key, and change the value to “4” with hexadecimal as base, then click ok.

Next, on the left side column, find the “WdFilter“. Repeat the process of changing the value on the Start key as we did before.

After that, you will look for “WdNisDrv” and repeat the same process.

You’ll be following the same steps with the “WdNisSvc” folder.

Lastly, repeat again the process for the “WinDefend” folder.

Finally, we now have successfully disabled the Windows Defender on the Windows 11.

In case you want to re-enable your Windows Defender, here are the default registry key values you will need to re-input:

• Sense – 3
• WdBoot -0
• WdFilter – 0
• WdNisDrv – 3
• WdNisSvc – 3
• WinDefend – 2

Disable Safe Mode – Boot in Normal mode

You can now close the Registry Editor and now go back on the Start menu. Right-click on it, select the run button, and type in “misconfig” and hit ok. Go to the Boot tab and uncheck the Safe Boot under the Boot options. Hit the apply button and ok button. Then, restart your computer.

Now, we are now back in the normal mode on Windows 11.

For us to check whether we have successfully disabled the Windows Security or Windows Defender on our Windows 11 OS, go back to the Start menu, search “Windows Security” and open that app.

You will notice that the Virus & threat protection, it will just be stuck on “Getting protection info…” and it will never load up the Windows Security service on your computer.

That’s basically it. Hopefully you were able to disable Windows Defender or Windows Security on Windows 11 through this article.

Comment down and let me know if everything worked for you.

Are you currently using Windows 10? We also have a guide in disabling Windows defender on Windows 10! Just click here.

If you had a hard time following the instructions, try watching this video tutorial right below:

Video Tutorial! (Turn off Windows Defender – Permanent)

I’ll be sharing with you the easiest method and how can you actually install google play store directly on your windows 11 without having to install third-party apps or emulators.

So far this is the easiest method that I’ve actually tried myself hence let’s now go to our desktop so that I can show you how can we actually install google play store or android apps directly on your windows 11.

Step-by-step guide: Let’s install google play store on Windows 11

Windows Toolbox

First, let’s now go ahead and open up our web browser go ahead and proceed to this link and you’ll be shown with the github page of the powershell windows toolbox.

This is an open source application that we are going to be using to be able to install the google play store easily on your windows 11.

What you will have to do is to just simply go ahead and scroll down to the middle part of the page until you see this command under the “How to Use” section.

Next, go ahead and go to the start menu and look for powershell right click the windows powershell and make sure to run it as administrator.

Hit the yes button if you are prompted with the uac and once the powershell is loaded up, go ahead and paste the link that we’ve just copied a while ago and hit the enter button on your keyboard.

Then you will now be shown with this particular window right here:

What we’re interested in is to go first on the back up and restore and click on the create restore point we are going to create first a system restore point so that we can go back or undo all the changes that we’ve made in case something goes wrong during the process of installation.

Once the restore point has been created, it will take you back to the windows toolbox app you simply go ahead and look for the install google play store for windows 11 button.

You’ll be shown with this window right here if you’re shown with this prompt right here wherein the pc will automatically restart after enabling the windows subsystem for android just simply type in yes in the command line.

After a successful restart on your computer or your laptop, we can now go ahead and go back to our web browser and then go to the previous link that we’ve opened a while ago which is the github page for the powershell windows toolbox project.

We will have to reopen the windows toolbox by copying and pasting the command from the github page once again.

Once the windows toolbox is opened we’re going to scroll down on the bottom once again and click on the install google play store for windows 11.

It will ask us a different prompt this time around which is to download new version of windows subsystem for android with google play store service compatibility all we have to do is just enter p on our keyboard to proceed with this process go ahead and copy the link as shown on the screen and download the compressed file.

Once downloaded, you will be able to see the windows subsystem for android update 7z file which is compress zip file so we’re just going to right click on this one and click on the copy as path.

Next, go ahead and paste the path of the file on this command line right here once you’ve pasted the path for the windows subsystem for android 7 7z compressed file all you have to do is just hit the enter button on your keyboard all you have to do again is to just wait for this process to complete

Once it is done you will be shown with all of this apps right here such as this windows subsystem for android app that shows you a progress that it is currently starting up that particular app.

All we have to do is go to this optional diagnostic prompt that we might be shown just simply click on the continue button and we are just going to wait until this process is complete and it should automatically turn on the developer options and you will be shown with a notification indicating that the google play protect is currently turned on.

Hence, the google play store is now currently installed on our windows 11.

To open up the google play store simply go to the search button on your task bar and then search “play store” and you’ll be able to see the google play store app installed directly on your windows 11.

All you have to do is just right click on the app and click on the pin to start or pin the taskbar for easier access.

Did everything went well while following this guide? If yes, then you’ve successfully installed Google Playstore directly on your Windows 11.

Having a hard time to follow through the instructions? Here’s a video guide for you!

Video Tutorial (Run android apps on Windows 11, no emulators!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDnBv4PZRek