Sunday, February 3, 2013

Scheduled scan with Defender within Windows 8

The Security Essentials application that is available for Windows 7 includes an option within the GUI to modify the default scheduled scan.

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The Windows Defender that is included within Windows 8 has a similar interface, but the scheduled task option is not present.

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The scheduled task entries for the application has moved to the standard Scheduled Tasks interface.

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A new scheduled task can be created if needed by using the command line switches that are available.

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