There's an acknowledged bug in Defender whereby history items continually get thrown in your face.
The solution given by MS is to delete the scans folder, C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-remove-protection-history-of-windows/6080b1fb-b95a-40b6-970c-c4321281b656
How do I get access to that folder? It's out of bounds to my Administrator account.
Ed
On 6/15/2024 10:27 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
There's an acknowledged bug in Defender whereby history items continually get thrown in your face.
The solution given by MS is to delete the scans folder, C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-remove-protection-history-of-windows/6080b1fb-b95a-40b6-970c-c4321281b656
How do I get access to that folder? It's out of bounds to my Administrator account.
Ed
I got in there using the Macrium Rescue CD and its Command Prompt.
At a guess, it's possible the Command Prompt in Troubleshooting of
the Windows installer DVD might also work.
Since the picture-taking in the Macrium 7 I'm using, seems busted,
I tried executing GIMP off the C: drive, and the crusty version I
used, works. Here you can see me gaining access to those folders.
[Picture]
https://i.postimg.cc/dtWQfvFq/Macrium-Win-PE-Access.gif
I could then try a "del long-string-of-stuff" and maybe that
would work. Some of the numbered folders in there are empty,
only a couple have content.
Paul
There's an acknowledged bug in Defender whereby history items
continually get thrown in your face.
The solution given by MS is to delete the scans folder, C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-remove-protection-history-of-windows/6080b1fb-b95a-40b6-970c-c4321281b656
How do I get access to that folder? It's out of bounds to my
Administrator account.
Ed
On 15/06/2024 15:27, Ed Cryer wrote:
There's an acknowledged bug in Defender whereby history itemsLaunch cmd prompt as Administrator then type this:
continually get thrown in your face.
The solution given by MS is to delete the scans folder,
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-remove-protection-history-of-windows/6080b1fb-b95a-40b6-970c-c4321281b656
How do I get access to that folder? It's out of bounds to my
Administrator account.
Ed
cd C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Service>
Now del everything from this folder but before you can delete anything, you'll need to disable windows security for a minute or so. You do this
from the Windows Security App that you can launch from the sys-tray on
the bottom right corner of your screen. Let me know if you need an image
for this.
I assume you know how to del files from the command prompt.
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