Windows 10: Why is Defender not seeing all my drives!?

Discus and support Why is Defender not seeing all my drives!? in AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security to solve the problem; Hi all, I have a Win10 laptop that is currrent with "updates" and running Windows Defender. I recently noticed that it does not see all my drives.... Discussion in 'AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security' started by SOHO1, Dec 9, 2016.

  1. SOHO1
    SOHO1 Win User

    Why is Defender not seeing all my drives!?


    Hi all, I have a Win10 laptop that is currrent with "updates" and running Windows Defender. I recently noticed that it does not see all my drives.

    Local C: is OK
    Network share W: is seen and scanned
    Network share Y: is seen and scanned
    Network share P: is seen and scanned
    Network share O: is NOT SEEN.

    Note that the network shares O: and P: are on the same LAN server and both are accessible by browsing and the files access just fine.

    However, in the dialoge "Select the dries and folders you want to scan:" the O: drive does NOT appear.

    Why and how to fix?

    :)
     
    SOHO1, Dec 9, 2016
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  2. JESSICAHINNANT
    jessicahinnant Win User

    Windows Defender keeps popping up

    Computer just had an update and I believe updated Windows Defender as well. Now, I can't get Defender to stop popping up over all my other open windows. Why is it doing this? It's driving me crazy!
     
    jessicahinnant, Dec 9, 2016
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  3. CHARLIELOVEJOY
    charlielovejoy Win User
    scaning my bd rom drive d

    why cant I defender scan my bd rom drive
     
    charlielovejoy, Dec 9, 2016
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  4. SOHO1
    SOHO1 Win User

    Why is Defender not seeing all my drives!?

    Found it! For some reason, despite having working network shares, Windows 10 seems to occasionally lose some of the the drive mappings as seen by Explorer.

    So, whilst I can see, visit and manipulate files on all the drive shares under a command window, I had to use Explorer to re-map one the shared network drives to put it back in windows explorer.

    I wonder where Explorer get's it's info that is different from the command window.
     
    SOHO1, Dec 9, 2016
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