How to stop two Windows Defender annoyances

Win10’s built-in Windows Defender has matured into a top-ranked anti-malware tool, based on independent testing (e.g. AV-test.org info). But several of its default behaviors can be downright irritating.

Here’s how to tweak Windows Defender with a few buried settings and a Task Scheduler change.

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