Allowed Items

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Windows Defender questions me each time I change my desktop theme, about my
screensaver. I go to the "Allow" screen and take care of it - but nothing
appears in my "allowed items" under History. So........next time my
screensaver changes, I get the message again. There seems to be no always
allow choice, as the Help information seems to indicate should be there. My
question - is there a way to stop this constant questioning about changing
from one screensaver to another? I am confused by the Help information
being so wrong about what I can do.
 
I believe you'll need to go to Tools, Options, and scroll down to Advanced
Options, and hit Add, and add the executables involved there.

My experience is that stuff gets into the history when you allow it as a
result of it turning up on a scan result--i.e. it is something "known" to
Windows Defender. In your case, I think the screensaver is an unknown
item--so besides joining Spynet as an advanced member and getting your votes
recorded, excluding it from scanning is what's possible.
 
JohnBurns said:
Windows Defender questions me each time I change my desktop theme,
about my screensaver. I go to the "Allow" screen and take care of
it - but nothing appears in my "allowed items" under History.
So........next time my screensaver changes, I get the message again.
There seems to be no always allow choice, as the Help information
seems to indicate should be there. My question - is there a way to
stop this constant questioning about changing from one screensaver to
another? I am confused by the Help information being so wrong about
what I can do.
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You are correct, always allow is not yet implemented in this beta (the help
file has a caveat to the effect that all you read there may not yet apply).
At present the allowed items consequently remains empty. I hope and expect
it will be implemented in a later version.

You can avoid being alerted each time if you add the exact path and file
name to the exclusion box in Tools, Options, Advanced options section
(scroll down to see it). You can find the path and file name that causes the
alert by highlighting the appropriate alert in the History; the bottom panel
has the info under file:
WD will still generate an event log, but you will not be alerted.
 
I have two items in my "allowed items" list on this system. RealVNC, for
example, is one of them.

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Thanks again - just tried your suggestion - it works - no "biggy" - just a
small irritation which was easily fixed.

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