How to Permanently Get Rid of the Windows Defender Shield in the System Tray?

[NoelC]

No matter what settings are thrown, no matter what tweaker apps have been used, the Windows Defender shield keeps showing back up in the "hidden" box of the notification area icons.

Call me OCD, but even though the "hidden" box of icons is, well, hidden normally I don't ever want to see the Defender icon anywhere in there.  I'm of the opinion that any resource-using extras I don't need nor want should be removed.  I simply don't want the MSASCuiL.exe process running.

If I tweak the system with WinAero Tweaker, the icon can be hidden after a logoff/logon, but after the next system reboot it's back.  I think what's going on is that Windows Defender is more aggressive than ever in asserting itself.  I have been considering just eliminating it.

As I mentioned, the above seems to work - until a reboot.  Any ideas what to try to make it stay away permanently?

-Noel

Edited November 16, 2016 by NoelC

[NoelC]

OK, I figured it out.

There's an entry in the Task Manager "Startup" tab that has to be disabled:

-Noel

[aviv00]

https://bitbucket.org/himselfv/cbsenum

run it as trustedisntaller use Decouple before removing

edit:

Microsoft-HVSI-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~10.0.14971.1000
Microsoft-HVSI-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~10.0.14971.1000

might related

Edited November 17, 2016 by aviv00

[NoelC]

That's an interesting looking tool.  Though unneeded by me now for this particular task, thanks for the tip.

-Noel