Windows Defender (Beta 2) - Initial and Subsequent Scans

Once Windows Defender has been installed and starts for the first time, the screen shown below (Fig. 01) will appear.

	The first thing you want to do is click the [Check for Updates] button to get the latest definitions installed. There is no point in running a scan without the latest definitions.
	As soon as the updates have downloaded and installed the program will go ahead and start the initial scan. You don't get to select the type of scan for this initial pass. You can see in the screen capture below it's performing a Quick Scan. The scan statistics are displayed in the main window for the most recent scan. It only took 53 seconds to scan 10567 objects and there was no unwanted or harmful spyware detected.
	Once the initial definition update and scan has completed, click [Home] in the toolbar and the scan statistics will disappear. The last scan date and type of scan performed are displayed in the Status area of the main Windows Defender interface.
	Other scan options are available from the drop down Scan menu. Full Scan obviously runs a scan on the entire system or you can select [ Custom Scan... ] to select specific drives or folders to be scanned.
	Even though it doesn't specifically say so in the previous screen, selecting [ Custom Scan... ] also allows you to set Quick or Full as the scanning default. If you only want to scan selected drivers or folders, click [ Select... ] button and make your selections in the drive list that appears.

Windows Defender (Beta 2)
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Windows Defender (Beta 2) - Initial and Subsequent Scans
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