There is two ways to access Settings

• Access via Control Panel

• Access via Settings

1. Access Control Panel

2. Click Windows Defender

 

3. Click Settings

1. Access Settings

2. Click Update & security Windows Update, recovery, backup

3. Click Windows Defender

The options is as follows

1. Real-time protection

   1. This helps find and stop malware from installing or running on your PC. You can turn this off temporarily, but if it's off for a while we'll turn it back on automatically.

2. Cloud-based Protection

   1. Get better, faster protection by sending Microsoft info about potential security problems Windows Defender finds.

   2. Privacy Statement

3. Automatic sample submission

   1. Help us make Windows Defender better by sending Microsoft samples so we can improve our anti-virus and malware measures. Turn this off to be prompted before sending samples to Microsoft.

   2. Privacy Statement

4. Exclusions

   1. Windows Defender won't scan excluded files, making your PC more vulnerable to malware.

   2. Add an exclusion

5. Version info informs you of the following

   1. Antimalware client version

   2. Engine version

   3. Antivirus definition

   4. Antispyware definition

   5. Network inspection system

   6. Engine version

   7. Network inspection system

   8. Definition version

6. Open Windows Defender