is defender safe to run on a full time system ????

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Hi there is defender safe to run on a full system not a test system but my
curent running system. just wondering how stable it is and if it is safe to
use on a system that i use day to day. thanks
 
I've been running beta1 and beta2 in all the publicly released versions on
about 50 production systems since the start of the beta.

There's been nothing unstable about any release of the beta code, although
I've seen some evidence that certain installs--i.e. some individual
users--haven't worked well--nothing like that has happened to me. If you
find that it has an adverse impact on your system, write back about the
details, and remove it from your system. I haven't had any problems, nor
have the vast majority of the 25 million users.
 
bill i have heard some instance were defender makes repeted post in your
system restore dose that caus a problem? is there a fix for that if it dose.
thanks for propt respons or is it allready fixed.
 
Whether you view that as a problem probably depends on your system--how your
slider for space devoted to SR is set, and how much disk space you have.

There is a registry-edit fix for that, and folks here also report that
checking a couple of non-default settings that result in more notifications
than usual from Windows Defender also stops it. The Microsof team has
posted that they have code in house that improves on this, but no new code
has been posted since that posting.


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i think the slider is set to defualt whats a good place for it ? not sure
what defualt is as i never played with that setting?
 
I believe that one is set as a percentage of the size of your drive. The
question is whether you have enough space to go back some reasonable amount
of time if something goes wrong. How much space that is depends to some
extent on the frequency of creation of restore points, how big they are, and
how much space is allocated.

I've never ever bothered to look into this issue on any system, although I
do sometimes reduce the slider to the minimum on systems I know to be
constrained for disk space.

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hi have a 40 gig drive so do you think i should put it to the min or leave it
defualt i never had a problem with it were its at now and i have had this
comp for about 4 yrs
 
cruser921 said:
Hi there is defender safe to run on a full system not a test system but my
curent running system. just wondering how stable it is and if it is safe to
use on a system that i use day to day. thanks
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You sound like a person with my kind of anxieties, so maybe a response from
someone like me may be useful.

I haven't experienced anything to suggest that Defender is likely to
seriously trash my system, but I must say I've been concerned by the reports
I've seen about people being unable to uninstall it. I haven't attempted to
uninstall it myself (yet).

But if you decide to try it, I'd say you should be prepared to find issues.
You may find yourself spending a lot of time posting and reading messages in
this newsgroup. I've found that experience interesting and informative, so
it's been a worthwhile exercise for me and I've learned a lot. But if you
don't want to spend time doing that; if you're just hoping to install
Defender and then get on with other things and not be troubled by it - I'd
say, don't. In that sense, I don't believe it's ready for general public
consumption yet, despite the millions who are apparently already using it.
 
I'd leave it alone and not worry about it.
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cruser921 said:
hi have a 40 gig drive so do you think i should put it to the min or leave
it
defualt i never had a problem with it were its at now and i have had this
comp for about 4 yrs
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thanks alan ill take your word for it ill wate till it comes out of beta
thank you again and god bless.
 
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