Windows 10: laptop is missing "scan with windows defender" context menu entry

So this is an old laptop. We're talking core2duo old. Its running the 20H2 build of windows 19041.153.

(so are all my pc's at this point)

for some reason it doesnt have the context menu entry for scan with windows defender. The other pc's do.

All settings are 1:1 as far as how windows defender is set up. Only things disabled are realtime & tamper. It still runs if i scan manually. still runs during maintenance etc.

I'm trying to simply get the context menu entry back.

Now i DO potentially recall visiting this in the past. WAY in the past and im old, so i could be purely imagining things. At that time, i vaguely remember something like it not being supported on my laptop/configuration for some particular reason hence its absence?

Either way, I cant find a trace of information like that now. It would have to be some kinda hardware limitation anyhow i imagine since again - same windows versions.

Either way, how can I get this sorted? What are the reg keys I want to look at perhaps? Anyone seen anything like this?

:)

 

"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?

 

Custom context menu entries

So, just throwing this out there, in case somone knows.

I have added a custom context menu entry for the program rightload, since by default the menu is broken in vistax64.

It works pefect with single files, but when I select mutiple files and try to open, I get mutiple instances of the program (which makes sense), here is my entry:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Rightload\Rightload.exe --server=1 --autostart %1

So the %1 passes the filename to the program, and when I select multiple files it is just opening multiple instances of rightload each with a different file.

What I'd like to do is be able to pass a list of the files selected to the program. Since I know it is capable of uploading multiple files from the context menu, all in one instance.

So, is there something I can pass besides %1 that will do this? I have looked around and can't seem to find an answer anywhere... *Frown

 

Remove Scan with Windows Defender

Hello Ron,

Did you use step 3 in OPTION ONE below?

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