Windows 10: How to do a quick/full system scan on a computer running Windows 10 in S mode?

I cannot scan any file on a computer running windows 10 in S mode.

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Windows Defender - Quick Scan

Windows defender no longer offers a quick scan option.

My options are:

• Scan
• Advanced Scan

• Full Scan
• Custom Scan
• Windows Defender Offline scan

Whichever option I check, the scan will need to run for hours to complete.

Is a quick scan available?

How do I restore this feature?

 

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.

 

Windows 10 -10240 Right click the "Quick access" and auto shutdonw File Explorer

Hi,



Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. I apologies for delay in response. I will certainly help you with this.

I suggest you to run Windows defender and check for any virus or malware infection. Usually, Windows Defender requires first time scan, when you update it at first time. I think you Shut down your computer or put it in Sleep mode before completing the scan.

Open it by typing Windows Defender in the search box. Then, from the Home page, run the quick scan (or full scan if you have time and you feel that you system driver(s) are infected).

Although you can close the window while it scans your computer, do not close it to see scan result. If everything is well done, close it and it will not ask you for scanning if not required for some reason. It will prompt if something is not going well.

This issue may occur due to some system file corruption.
I suggest you to run System file checker. System File checker (SFC) scan is done to check if there are any corrupted system files that could be causing this issue. Kindly follow the below given steps:

• Press Windows key + X, select Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt.
• In Command prompt type sfc/scannow and press enter.
• Restart the computer.

If no corrupted system files were found in the previous state, then I suggest you to try the following steps:

• Open command prompt by pressing Windows key + X and selecting “Command prompt admin”.
• In command prompt, type the following commands and press Enter after each command:

• DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
• DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
  • Close the command prompt and restart the PC and check if it works.

Please post back with the results , we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.