Win10 steps to set up Windows Defender plan scan

  
Win10 comes with Windows Defender, the default antivirus software. This is a good thing, but if you think about catching up with the computer at high speed during scanning, there is inevitably a conflict between the two. In fact, we can set up a scheduled scan of Windows Defender, how to set it up?
Open the "Local Group Policy Editor" (the method to start the Group Policy Editor under Win10), in the left navigation pane, navigate to "Computer Configuration & ndash; Administrative Templates & ndash; Windows Components & ndash; Windows Defender – Scan & rdquo;. Figure:

Then scroll down the list to the bottom in the right window to see a list of options related to Windows Defender scheduled scans.
First, specify the time interval for running fast scans every day
Double-click this configuration item to open the configuration window. As shown in the figure:

<;Help" has a detailed description of this configuration item:
With this policy setting, you can specify the time interval for performing a quick scan. The time value is expressed in hours between two quick scans. Valid values ​​range from 1 (hourly) to 24 (once a day). If set to 0, the interval interval fast scan will not be performed. This setting is set to 0 by default.
If you enable this setting, quick scans run at specified intervals.
If this setting is disabled or not configured, a quick scan will be run at the default time.
The default is “Unconfigured", that is, the quick scan will only be run at the default time, and the default time is set in the following item: 5. Specify the time to run the fast scan every day.
Setting suggestions: We don't have to have Windows Defender scan multiple times a day, so keep this “not configured”

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