Windows 10: Add Windows Defender Antivirus context menu in Windows 10

How to: Add Windows Defender Antivirus context menu in Windows 10

How to Add or Remove Windows Defender Antivirus context menu in Windows 10


Windows Defender Antivirus helps protect your PC against malware (malicious software) like viruses, spyware, and other potentially unwanted software. Malware can infect your PC without your knowledge: it might install itself from an email message, when you connect to the Internet, or when you install certain apps using a USB flash drive, CD, DVD, or other removable media. Some malware can also be programmed to run at unexpected times, not only when it's installed.

Windows Defender Antivirus is included with Windows and helps keep malware from infecting your PC in two ways:

• Providing real-time protection. Windows Defender Antivirus notifies you when malware tries to install itself or run on your PC. It also notifies you when apps try to change important settings.
• Providing anytime scanning options. Windows Defender Antivirus automatically scans your PC for installed malware on a regular basis, but you can also start a scan whenever you want. Windows Defender Antivirus automatically removes (or temporarily quarantines) anything that's detected during a scan.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove a Windows Defender Antivirus desktop context menu for all users to be able to quickly open, open settings, update, update and quick scan, quick scan, full scan, or offline scan with Windows Defender in Windows 10.

While you must be signed in as an administrator to be able to add or remove the Windows Defender Antivirus context menu, all users will be able to use the context menu.

You must be an administrator to be able to perform an offline scan with Windows Defender Antivirus.




EXAMPLE: Windows Defender Antivirus desktop context menu






Here's How:

1 Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Add Windows Defender Antivirus to Desktop Context Menu
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Add_Windows_Defender_Antivirus_to_desktop_context_menu.reg

Download

3. To Remove Windows Defender Antivirus from Desktop Context Menu
This is the default setting

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A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Remove_Windows_Defender_Antivirus_from_desktop_context_menu.reg

Download
4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 If you have File Explorer open, then you could either navigate to another location or close and reopen File Explorer to apply.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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Add Windows Defender context menu in Windows 10


Hello Aabhi,

I'll add it to my list to look at.

UPDATE:

Scan with Windows Defender Context Menu - Add in Windows 10

 

What the hell, windows defender?

https://www.av-test.org/en/antiviru...-2017/microsoft-windows-defender-4.12-174847/

28 False Positives in last 2 tests

 

"scan with Windows Defender" missing in context menu

With the upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 my MS Security Essentials (MSE) was replaced by Windows Defender. MSE once was a competitive antivirus, but Microsoft has been neglecting it the past years. Definition updates kept arriving, but bugs were not fixed and
AFAIK nothing new to program itself was added. Windows Defender seems to me as an active step backwards. In MSE I could right-click on a file or folder and choose "Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials". This is missing in my Windows 10 Pro. The "custom
scan" opens on the My Computer level and makes you navigate all the way down to the folder to scan.

Does anyone know a registry hack to get it back in the context menu?

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Decent free antivirus?

Oh and just in case its for an older O/S

this little nugget of goodness
Still not on Windows 10? Fine, sighs Microsoft, here are its antivirus tools for Windows 7, 8.1
Redmond extends ATP to older builds, adds third-party links