Windows 10: Windows Defender History Crashes; Can’t Delete detections.log

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Windows Defender is the default antivirus in Windows PC, which protects the PC against various threats such as malware, viruses, and others. While Windows Defender keeps track of all its actions to safeguard your PC against these threats, many users have complained of being unable to access the Windows Defender Protection History. In this article, […]

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Clear Windows Security Center (Defender) Protection History

Did not work for me. After going through all steps I still have protection history full

 

Clearing Windows Defender history

Hey, what you need to do is so simple, just follow the steps below exactly in order:

1. Turn OFF Real-time Protection
2. Turn OFF Cloud-delivered Protection
3. Go to this folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service
4. Delete the contents in the folder
5. Turn ON Real-time Protection
6. Turn ON Cloud-delivered Protection

That's it... Now check protection History, it's empty.
Done!

 

Cannot seem to access history logs for Defender on Windows 10

Defender seems to be working fine however I cannot seem to find the records for any detected threats or anything at all for that matter. When I go into history on the desktop app there is nothing showing for any of the logs. Is this usual? Surely there
should be a list of detected cookies at least.