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Taming Windows Defender
Awesome Donkey:
AV-TEST, one of the top third-party companies that does extensive testing of antivirus apps, has confirmed that Windows Defender is one of the best antiviruses out there. It's still so strange to be reading and saying that, considering that a few years ago Windows Defender was practically a joke and here we are with it taking top scores. This is why I don't personally suggest to people to purchase and/or install antivirus apps anymore and just use Windows Defender, there's no reason to unless you like spending money and you're visiting some pretty shady sites, and even then I'd recommend setting up and using a virtual machine for that.
https://www.neowin.net/news/av-test-confirms-windows-defender-is-amongst-the-very-finest-antiviruses-you-get-in-2021/
macdonjh:
I started having troubles with MC28 on one of the three computers I have. As suggested by JimH, I started working on applying the recommendations in this thread, but I can't find where, with my version of Windows 10, to add exclusions to my installation of Windows Defender.
Would somebody post an updated "tree" to point me where I can add exclusions? When I open the Start Menu and find Windows Security, I get a pop up similar to the screen shot provided by Awesome Donkey in his first post. But when I click on the Settings "sprocket" in the lower left corner of that pop-up, I get this:
I have not yet, no matter how many places I click, found the place where I can manage exclusions.
JimH:
Did you try Google? Or Microsoft?
Search apps for Defender.
Awesome Donkey:
On the left side of that window under the back arrow icon is that vertical row of icons (usually there's labels but if the window is small you won't see the labels). Click the shield icon and you should be able to from that section > Virus & threat protection settings > Manage settings > then when that page loads Exclusions on the bottom.
macdonjh:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on January 08, 2022, 02:47:59 pm ---On the left side of that window under the back arrow icon is that vertical row of icons (usually there's labels but if the window is small you won't see the labels). Click the shield icon and you should be able to from that section > Virus & threat protection settings > Manage settings > then when that page loads Exclusions on the bottom.
--- End quote ---
I did find it. Start Menu -> Windows Security (pop up window opens) -> Virus & threat Protection (from the menu bar on the left side) -> Virus & threat protection settings, click Manage settings -> Exclusions, click Add or remove exclusions
Sorry for wasting everyone's time with this, I completely missed it when I was looking earlier.
For my first attempt to get things working again, I took RD James' recommendations in Reply #22 and added these exclusions: "C:\Program Files\J River\" and "%APPDATA%\J River\"
More in a bit...
EDIT: adding the exclusions above (configured as File/ Folder exclusions, not Process exclusions) did not solve my troubles. I've continued posting in the thread I started, rather than continuing to hijack this thread.
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