Windows Defender Crashes my PC


  1. Martin887766
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    Windows 10
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    Windows Defender Crashes my PC


    Windows Defender crashes my PC after running a full scan for about 15 minutes.

    Quick scan is fine, updating definitions is fine. I am on Windows 10. Worked perfect on Windows 7.
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  3. Borg 386
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    Win 7 32, Win 7 64 Pro, Win 8.1 64 Pro, Win 10 64 Education Edition, Win 11 Pro
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    You may wish to run a SFC to verify there are no corrupted files. Option 3 is recommended, but there are other options you can use.

    SFC Command - Run in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

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    If SFC could not fix something, then run the command again to see if it may be able to the next time. Sometimes it may take running the sfc /scannow command up to 3 times with Fast Startup turned off and restarting the computer after each time to completely fix everything that it's able to.

    If not, then run the Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth command to repair any component store corruption, restart the PC afterwards, and try the sfc /scannow command again.
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