User Guide – Windows Defender Manager Pro 2025 Edition

Contents

• About
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Installation
• How to Use?
• Right Click Context Menu
• Settings
  • Defender Antivirus Protections
  • Defender Status Monitor
  • General Options
• Backup Exclusion List
• How to Use Command-line Version 
• Version & Release History
• Contact XenArmor

About

XenArmor Windows Defender Manager Pro is the enterprise software to continuously monitor & disable/enable Windows Defender. .

Also prevent it from blocking your files, folders, processes or network computers. Just right click on any file, folder or process to add it to exclusion list of Defender.

It comes with advanced Real-time Status Monitoring feature to continuously check & maintain your chosen Defender status.

Benefits

Here are the main benefits for you,

• One-Click Control: Easily enable or disable Windows Defender with just a click of button
• Real-Time Monitor: Constantly checks & enforces your Defender status
• Protect Your PC: Safeguard your PC by preventing any malware from disabling Defender stealthily
• Run at Startup: Automatically applies your Defender status on system boot
• All Protections: Selectively disable or enable all Defender protections
  • Realtime Monitoring
  • Behavior Monitoring
  • PUA Protection
  • Cloud Protection
  • Block At First Sight
  • Scan Email
  • Scan Scripts
  • Scan Archive
  • Scan Network Files
  • Scan Removable Drive
  • Scan Mapped Network Drives
  • Scan downloaded files & attachments DisableIOAVProtection
  • Automatic Sample Submission
• Exclusion Manager: Add, remove or view all Defender exclusions
• Multi-Colored Display: Easily identify different type of Exclusions with color-coded report
• Context Menu Support: Right-click on any file, folder or process to add it to exclusion list of Defender
• Remove Rogue Exclusions: Easily find & delete entries added by Malware
• Settings Manager: Configure all protections, monitoring time interval and options in one place
• Support All Exclusions: Manage all Exclusion types including file, folder, process, file type & IP address
• Backup Exclusions: Export all Exclusions to HTML,CSV,XML,JSON,SQLite file
• Launch Defender Settings: Directly open Defender settings, protection history, logs etc
• Command-line: Run all Defender tasks (enable/disable or add/remove exclusions) from your scripts
• Unlimited Portable Edition: Run on any PC from USB without Installation
• Bonus Software: Includes Free Gift of Wi-Fi Password Recovery Pro
• Supported Windows OS: Works on all 32-bit & 64-bit platforms from Windows 10 to Windows 11

Requirements

XenArmor Windows Defender Manager Pro works on both 32-bit & 64-bit platforms starting from Windows 10 to Windows 11.

Here are the specific details,

• Installation Size: 16 MB
• RAM: 4 GB+ Recommended
• Operating System: Windows 11,10 Windows Server 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016 (32-bit/64-bit)

Note: Mobile/pads/non-windows devices not supported

Installation

XenArmor Windows Defender Manager Pro comes with standard windows installer which allows seamless installation & un-installation.

Launch the setup file and follow on-screen instructions to complete the installation as shown below,

After installation, it will launch your software showing activation screen as follows,

Anytime, you can uninstall it directly from the Windows Add/Remove Programs.

How to Use?

XenArmor Windows Defender Manager Pro is very easy to use. After installation, just launch it & click on “Disable/Enable Defender” button to instantly disable or enable Windows Defender respectively as shown in screen below.

Once set, it continuously monitors Defender status and enforces your chosen status if Windows security enables it back. Anytime you can control this Real time Monitoring via Settings.

Important Note:Whenever you minimize or close this application, it will be available in System Tray (bottom right corner). You can just click on it to re-launch the application.

Also it includes Exclusion Manager which shows list of all excluded entries in Defender (as shown above). Multi-colored display helps in quick identification of different type of exclusions. You can right click in the list or click on buttons to add, remove or export exclusions to file.

Right Click Context Menu

Anytime, you can right click on your file, folder or process to add it to exclusion list of Defender as shown below.

Settings

Settings manager help you to configure all protections, monitoring time interval and general options in one place.

To launch, simply click on ‘Settings’ button from the main GUI screen and you will see the Settings panel as shown below,

Refer to below sections for more details on each of the sections in Settings screen.

Settings – Defender Antivirus Protections

First section in Settings screen helps you to select or deselect all type of protections of Defender. Whenever you enable/disable Defender, these selected protections will be enabled/disabled accordingly.

 

Settings – Defender Status Monitor

This is Real-time Monitoring feature continuously checks & maintains your chosen Defender status.

Here you can enable/disable it as per your need. Also set time interval for waiting before checking status again. By default it is set to 30 seconds and with maximum value 3600 seconds (60 min).

Tip: If you see that Windows security is able to change it then reduce this time interval to enforce your set status.

Settings – General Options

Last section contains options to control context menu & running at startup as shown below.

Backup Exclusion List

To backup all listed Defender Exclusions, click on Export button to save it to HTML, CSV, XML, JSON or SQLite Database file.

Here is the sample of HTML report,

How to Use Command-line

XenArmor Windows Defender Manager Pro also supports command-line options. It helps you to fully automate password recovery or use in your scripts or programs.

Here is the screenshot of using Command-line options

Here are various command-line options & examples

Note: This feature is available only in Premium & Unlimited Edition.

Version & Release History

Note: To get download link of latest update please contact our support team with your order details.

Contact XenArmor

Have any more queries or need any technical clarification? Just write to us at support@xenarmor.com and you will have response within 24 to 48 hours.

For more details visit home page of XenArmor Windows Defender Manager Pro