How to Exclude a File or Folder from Windows Defender Scan In Windows 10 [Tutorial]

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How to Exclude a File or Folder from Windows Defender Scan In Windows 10 [Tutorial]

Are you getting false positives with Windows Defender Antivirus? Here are the steps to exclude files, folders, and other items from getting scanned on Windows 10.

On Windows 10, the Windows Defender Antivirus is your default anti-malware engine to protect your device and data from viruses, roolkits, ransomware, and other security threats.

Although for the most part the built-in Windows 10 antivirus does a pretty good job, it may flag a file or folder that you trust as malicious. If you want to prevent this type of behavior from happening, Windows Defender Antivirus includes an option to exclude files and folders, as well as file types and processes from getting scanned and blocked.

In this Windows 10 guide, we walk you through the steps to exclude specific items and locations from Windows Defender Antivirus scans.

Windows Defender Firewall is the security guard of your Windows computer. Windows Firewall is a vital application developed by Microsoft and comes with every Windows PC by default. It is the default antivirus protection of your Windows computer. Windows Firewall facilitates filtering of data transmissions across the computer. When you scan your computer using Windows Defender or Windows Firewall, whatever you call it, it scans each and every file and folder. Sometimes, there are certain files or file types, that we know, are not corrupted and we want to skip them to speed up the scanning process. In that case, you can exclude those folder or file or file types to be scanned by Windows Defender. In this tutorial, we shall show you how to exclude a folder or file from Windows Defender scan on Windows 10.

Windows Defender can scan and monitor almost all the folders in Windows 10. In case you have a folder which may have files which could send an alarm to Windows Security, then it is best to Add an exclusion to Windows Security. It is fine to do that if you are sure that the contents of the folder are safe and Windows Defender is only throwing out false-positive warnings. That way, it will not scan those folders in the future. Again, there are some Windows files and folders you may exclude from Antivirus scans – and you may want to do that to save your scan time.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).
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3 years later and this still works perfectly! Thanks for the tutorial, very good.

nicolassevigny
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only video on youtube ❤ i lost your video and found it again

storymaker_____
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Hi. Can you help me? Whenever I clicked the “Virus & Threat Protection” these options are never there for me. There is no manage settings and I cant find any “Exclusions”. Help :(

ainamardhiah
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It worked. You saved the day.Thanks so much.

fredrussell
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I did this and it is still deleting files from the folder, even after I added it to exclusion.

dre
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Thanks. The windows language was very technical.

ramspencer
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Thank you. Microsoft should draw the line at too much control.

edgeGabe
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Need help !! I am not able to delete the file which are in exclusion box. The remove option is passive. There are lots of exclusion file in my wall defender behind my permission. I want to remove that file. Please help me !!!

rikeshshrestha
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I have win10 and dont have such option. Not for folder

TheJackKojack
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Hi Can someone help me fix this problem please, when Windows Defender on Win10 says "Your Viirus and Threat Protecton is managed by your organization" Please help I can't get past this..

ifiitzz
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Genuinely shocked when I turned the volume up and your voice wasn't Hindu.

calvinriley
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How to save the "add or remove exclusions" in windows security, and use it (restore it) to another computer in windows 10?

CostasSachpazis
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Hey there, can you do a video on how to find missing "sticky notes" after this last Windows 10 update? Thank you.

richardmartinez
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Unfortunately windows 10 defender still scans new files added to even an excluded directory. Just seen this with my own eyes - very frustrating.

Geffers
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Thanks for the video.
And I have a concern about my laptop (Lenovo G 50 70 purchased in 2015), it hangs very often now. i3 4th gen, 512 HDD, AMD 8500 graphics,

I tried reinstalling windows and drivers two times .. nothing else unnecessary installed, at first it was good having around 45 - 60 sec boot up duration with less hangs while working and one month later it again hangings. Any tips or is it because of usage over 5 yrs.

aynviaynvi
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Many many thanks you are very helpful vedio upload

mdnuruzzaman
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I’m getting a crash error fsd_win64_shipping lost .when I’m trying to pull up my game. Should I exclude the game file on my antivirus software so it will pop up the game for me ? Thanks for the video.

Famoustoast
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how to add Exclusions on windows 8.1 pls pls i need it to run Synapse X

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