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how to cancel windows defender automatic scans?
Is there a way to have real-time protection of WD, but without the automatic scans?
Is there a way to have real-time protection of WD, but without the automatic scans?
Not sure, but here's a couple tutorials that may help. At the bottom of the tutorial you will find more links to defender tutorials.
Limited Periodic Scanning - Turn On or Off in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
Windows Defender - Turn On or Off in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
The scheduled scans only run when the computer is idle, you can check this by looking at the conditions and make further changes to the conditions if you wish; for example you could only allow it to start after an idle period of say 1 hour. You would right click and select properties if you want to do this.
Shmu, I've never had a problem with this. Occasionally, I run a Defender quick scan and it only takes a few minutes.
My understanding is that Windows Defender uses real-time protection to scan everything that you download or run on your PC. This happens in real-time whenever you run a file or request a download. The scanning that the OP is worried about is separate and looks at all the files on your PC irrespective of whether you are using them or not. It is possible to have real time protection always on but only perform a full scan by manual triggering it from the WD control panel. The default is to have automatic scanning set to run in the background when the PC is idle because most people would forget to do manual scans.