Windows Defender Is Becoming the Powerful Antivirus That Windows 10 Needs

Should I enable computing of files’ hash in Windows Defender ?
It is said everywhere that it can have an impact on perfs but as I understood from any other AVs, everyone does that to speed up later scans, comparing hashes to known/unknown files in databases to speed up processing and avoiding unnecessary scans.

 

Is there any effective way that actually cleans the Protection History of Windows Security?
I tried all methods described HERE without any result.
(Running Windows 11 23H2)

 

Sometimes those methods work, sometimes they don't. What always works for me is to install DefenderUI, find the setting to delete history, then uninstall it.

 

Same here. Tried ALL methods for years and none work! But, by magic, Protection History was cleared when I checked yesterday. Do not forget to undo everything you might have done in the Registry or GPEdit then try again or try as digmor posted.

Why Microsoft does not fix this is well, it's Microsoft.

Good luck.

 

Just got RAPID TCP queries of taskinput.exe to 13.170.246.53, port 443. , somethin related microsoft?