Defender tells me I haven't run a scan in X number of days

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Arteful Dodger

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?
 
Hello Arteful,

Am I correct in thinking that you are running CCleaner or another registry
cleaner?
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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.
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I hope this post is helpful.

Let us know how it works ºut.

Good luck
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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.
 
Hi Arteful,

I am glad I could help and thank you for updating the thread.

It helps if you mark your initial question as answered--that will enable
others searching for an answer to find a correct one more quickly.

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Thank you.
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