Tips: Win8/Win8.1 to retrieve WD right-click scanning function

Microsoft has never relaxed on its own Windows system security, in addition to monthly repair patches, built-in security protection products Windows Defender directly in Win8/Win8.1 Can be regarded as Microsoft's own anti-virus MSE vest. WD defaults to background real-time protection, but if you can right-click WD to scan, it is very user-friendly.
To this end, Microsoft officials also realized that the needs of the majority of users have compiled a tutorial for right-click integration with WD scanning.
The specific tutorial is as follows:
1, Win + R, call out "run", enter regedit, enter


2, open the registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Folder \\Shell" path, right click on the shell, select "New - Item", item: "WindowsDefender".


3, on the right side of the "WindowsDefender" item, select "New - String Value", the new string value is named "Icon"

4, double-click the "Icon" string Edit, the value %ProgramFiles%\\Windows Defender\\EppManifest.dll

5, create a new string value named "MUIVerb", the value is "Scan with Windows Defender"

6 On the "WindowsDefender" item, right-click "New-item" and name it "Command".

7, then double-click on the right side of the "Command" item to edit the "default" string value, enter the value data "C:\\Program Files\\Windows Defender\\MpCmdRun.exe" -scan -scantype 3 -SignatureUpdate -file %1

8. Finally, close the registry editor and take effect.

At this time, on the disk or any folder, there is an additional "Scan with Windows Defender" option in the right-click menu.

course, the above methods to scan only for a drive or folder, temporarily unable to scan individual files or programs.