Add or Remove Scan with Microsoft Defender Context Menu in Windows 10  

Hello @SKCoastie, and welcome to Ten Forums.

You can turn off the setting below in Malwarebytes to allow Windows Defender to be enabled again and still have Malwarebytes also running.

SKCoastie said:

That seemed to do it. Grazie, Brink. Am fairly certain "On" was the default setting. This new version 4 has a bunch of previous settings removed, as well as a complete, drastic overhaul to their UI. It'll take a while for me to get used to it.

The coincidence of installing Malwarebytes 4 and its effect on the Windows Security alert of another AV provider still has me wondering.

Thanks again!

You're most welcome.

@Brink, I applied the add scan reg file, logged out then logged in, but there is no Scan with Windows Defender in the File Explorer context menu.
Checked and all the registry entries are there. Defender is running.



Any suggestions on how to debug?

I have MBAM Premium, with

Hello Rich @Ztruker,

Odd. The context menu should be there by default when you right click on files and folders.

Matthew Wai said:

The one below works at my end. Try it out.

https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...s-defender.reg

The .reg file in the tutorial includes those lines, so it should still work.

I'm on 20H2 19042.661 and installed KB4586853 CU Windows 10 v2004 build 19041.661 and v20H2 19042.661

Hey, I could try a Repair Install now.

Ztruker said:

I'm on 20H2 19042.661 and installed KB4586853 CU Windows 10 v2004 build 19041.661 and v20H2 19042.661

Hey, I could try a Repair Install now.

Before going that far, check to make sure you have this below turned off in MBAM. It it's on, it will remove the "Scan with Microsoft Defender" context menu.

I have it turned on as that's thje way I prefer MBAM and Defender to run.

I'll turn it off and see what happens.

Thanks Shawn

Yup, that is the fix but I prefer it to run the other way so I'll turn it off if I need to scan individual files or folders.