Defender Feature request: finer control over scheduling of scans

Defender lets you schedule automatic scans; however, I wish it provided the
same kind of finer-grain control over that scheduling that the Control
Panel's "Scheduled Tasks" feature gives, such as:

- Don't start the task if the computer is running on batteries.
- Stop the task if battery mode begins.
- Wake the computer to run this task.
- Only start the task if the computer has been idle for at least N minutes.

OK, here goes:

Go to start, control panel, maintenance, scheduled tasks.

Advanced, show hidden tasks.

Look for a task with the executable mpcmdrun.exe

Modify the properties of this task according to your chosen settings, or
create your own, or multiples.

This is a command line app--syntax available by running it without any
arguments.

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"Mike Morearty" <MikeMorearty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Defender lets you schedule automatic scans; however, I wish it provided
> the
> same kind of finer-grain control over that scheduling that the Control
> Panel's "Scheduled Tasks" feature gives, such as:
>
> - Don't start the task if the computer is running on batteries.
> - Stop the task if battery mode begins.
> - Wake the computer to run this task.
> - Only start the task if the computer has been idle for at least N
> minutes.
>

Whoa. Cool.

- Mike

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"Bill Sanderson" wrote:

> OK, here goes:
>
> Go to start, control panel, maintenance, scheduled tasks.
>
> Advanced, show hidden tasks.
>
> Look for a task with the executable mpcmdrun.exe
>
> Modify the properties of this task according to your chosen settings, or
> create your own, or multiples.
>
> This is a command line app--syntax available by running it without any
> arguments.