Disabling Microsoft Windows Defender

Windows Defender is free and useful antispyware security tool from Microsoft. (Don't know what is Windows Defender? Click here to Know). But is some conditions you may want to disable it because

• You have anoteher antispyware tool and you prefer to use it, then its better to disable Windows Defender to prevent from conflict.
• You have some adware (adware are free but advertising-supported software their ads must be running to run those software) software and Windows Defender is not allowing you to run those software.
• or you may have any other reason

Now here is the step by step guide to disable it

First to open Windows Defender

in Windows XP

• Click the Start >All Progrmas and click on Windows Defender to open it

In Windows Vista and Windows 7

• Click the Start button and type windows defender in search programs and files box and hit the Enter key or select it from menu (as shown below) to run it.

Now to disable Windows defender.

• After running Windows defender, Click on Tools and the select Options from Tools Window.

• Now select Administrator from left column of Options,uncheck Use this program checkbox and click on Save button.

• If User Access/Account Control is turned on you will need to confirm the setting by clicking Yes .
• Now you will receive a notification that This program is turned off, click the close button and its done.

Disable/Enable System Restore in Windows

System Restore is a component of Windows, that you can use to restore your computer to a previous state, if a problem occurs, without losing your personal data files (such as Microsoft Word documents, browsing history, drawings, favorites, or e-mail). System Restore monitors changes to the system and some application files, and it automatically creates easily identified restore points. These restore points allow you to revert the system to a previous time. They are created daily and at the time of significant system events (such as when an application or driver is installed). You can also create and name your own restore points at any time.

Why you will need to disable it?

Well, Its a great and important feature of windows, but in some conditions you will need to disable it, such as

• You computer is infected with a virus and you want to remove the virus, but if the System Restore is enabled, the virus cannot be removed completely because System Restore will make a backup of the infected system files in the PC.
• You are running out of Disk space. System Restore takes space in your Hard Drive to make backup of System changes. You can recover free Disk space by Turning System Restore Off.

Now here is the step by step guide to Enable/Disable System Restore.

• Click the Start button and then point to My Computer in Start Menu.
• Right Click on My Computer icon and select properties from right Click menu to open System Properties.

• Now click on the System Restore tab in System Properties to open System Restore Setting.
• If you want to Turn Off System Restore on all drives just Check (√) the box named Turn Off System Restore in the System Restore Properties and click the OK button.

• But if you want to Turn off system Restore to a specific drives (e.g to Drive E only), select the drive from Available drives box and select setting.

• From setting dialogue box Check (√) the Turn off System Restore on this drive checkbox and click the OK button

• If you want to re-enable the System Restore feature of Windows just uncheck the the box named Turn off System Restore in the System Restore Properties and click the OK button.

Removing the windows taskbar clock

Do you know you can hide the Windows Taskbar Clock?

Here is the step by step tutorial to hide it.

• Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties.
• The Taskbar properties window will be opened. Now uncheck the Show the clock check box to remove the clock from windows Taskbar and click the Ok Button.

• Its done. Now there will be no clock in the Taskbar.

• To show the Clock again just Check the Show the Clock checkbox in above step.