Hi Arteful,
I am glad I could help and thank you for updating the thread.
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"Arteful Dodger" wrote:
> Hello Engel,
>
> As a matter of fact I am running CCleaner and after removing the check mark
> you mentioned the problem seems to have disappeared. Thank you very much for
> your suggestion and help.
>
> The thing I don't understand is that check mark was always there until I
> removed it today and the "no scan" message from Defender never appeared until
> recently.
>
> In any case, your suggestion seems to have eliminated the problem and again
> I thank you for that.
>
>
>
> "Engel" wrote:
>
> > Hello Arteful,
> >
> > Am I correct in thinking that you are running CCleaner or another registry
> > cleaner?
> > - -- ---
> > Are you running CCleaner by any chance, and do you have cleanup checked for
> >
> > Windows Defender in the Utilities category? If so, try unchecking it and
> >
> > then running a scan. Having this checked removes the history of when the
> >
> > last scan was run.
> > --
> >
> > I hope this post is helpful.
> >
> > Let us know how it works ºut.
> >
> > Good luck
> > - -- ---
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Arteful Dodger" wrote:
> >
> > > I've been using Defender for some time now. i've had it set up to run a scan
> > > every day. In the last week, it repeatedly has indicated that I have not run
> > > a scan in 5, 7, 9 and 10 days when in fact it has run a scan every day. I
> > > deleted it from my system and reinstalled and have the latest updates but yet
> > > today I opened Defender and it indicated that I had not run a scan in 10 days
> > > when in fact it ran one earlier in the day. Anyone else having this problem?
> > > If so, what's the fix for it?
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