Installed a lite windows 11 os and its windows defender is missing yet present, how to fix?

[HeyItsChris]

Installed a lite windows 11 os and its windows defender is missing yet present, how to fix?

 

[bonami2]

Antivirus are completly worthless 99% of time. Never used them in 15 years + Until windows 11 that made removal of defender a big headache.  They removed it to save cpu power. Atom and celeron processor struggle with defender running in the background it scan everything that startup.

 

I think Malwarebyte as realtime protection for free if you really want something. 

Edited February 12, 2023 by bonami2

[Alex]

10 hours ago, HeyItsChris said:

Installed a lite windows 11 os and its windows defender is missing yet present, how to fix?

 

You can download MS Defender via the MS Store

[Nikado7]

You mean tiny11?   Saw it was pretty nice but still had defender.  

[ENTERPRISE]

It may be possible to re-enable Win Defender using the attached scrip in Powershell. 

 

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.SecHealthUI -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage

 

[HeyItsChris]

Ill try your solutions soon, thanks.  Its present since it keeps deleting my files but wont let open defender to restore or add exclusions.

 

I may just restore all and add exclusions via shell command.  Since i tried defender from microsoft store no dice and commands report files missing errors. 

Edited February 13, 2023 by HeyItsChris