Back Up. Covert Ops. Internet Tools. Linux Distros. MajorGeeks Windows Tweaks. System Tools. Smart Defrag. K-Lite Codec Pack Update. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. As a built-in anti-malware program, the Windows Defender is widely used around the world. But with the widespread of this tool, a variety of problems begin to show up. Among them, Windows Defender deleted my files draws the attention of many people.
Yet, like many other programs or even people, it tends to make mistakes sometimes. No wonder there are people saying their useful files have been quarantined and deleted by Windows Defender mistakenly. Here comes the question: can you recover files deleted by Windows Defender. The answer to this question is definitely a yes, but the more annoying question is how to recover data deleted by Windows Defender.
In order to help users work this out, I decide to introduce a wonderful hard disk drive recovery tool named MiniTool Power Data Recovery which is a piece of fabulous data recovery software for Windows 10 and other Winodws systems. According to statistics, it has helped a large number of people find back their needed files successfully. Here in this part, I provide both an efficient way to recover permanently deleted files from computer and the method for restoring quarantined files from Windows Defender.
After finding many users complained that Windows Defender has deleted a wrong file or folder on their PC, I decide to do something to help.
I will take the trial edition as an example in the following steps to show you how to recover your files deleted by Windows Defender. Free Download. If you want to know the differences between different license types, please click here.
Step 2 : in this step, you should run the software and enter its main interface to select a proper tab: Logical Drives or Devices. Finally, click on the Scan button to detect them. Step 3 : wait for the scan of the selected drive. At this time, you should browse them in order to find the ones that have been deleted by Windows Defender by mistake. Find and Filter can be used to locate an exact file quickly. Step 4 : finally, please check the Windows Defender deleted files you want to recover, and then press the Save button in the lower right corner to set a storage directory for them.
Yet, sometimes, you may not be able to find needed files from the scanning result, especially when C: drive is the object of the scan since many files will be saved to the system drive as long as the system is running and the system drive is easy to become the object of attacks.
On this occasion, I advise you to perform a full scan on the whole disk that includes the partition holding Windows Defender deleted files to see what happens. Click to tweet. I will take Windows 10 as an example to show you how to restore quarantined files Windows Defender.
The operations in other Windows systems are basically the same. If the detected item list is empty, you should suspect that Windows Defender has already removed the quarantined items and you need to turn to the previous method to restore items removed by Windows Defender. We recommend that you regularly service OS installation images in order to update Microsoft Defender binaries and minimize this protection gap in new deployments.
This feature supports the following OS installation images:. After a new package version is released, support for the previous two versions will be reduced to technical support only. Versions prior to the previous two versions will no longer be supported. For more information, see Manage Windows Defender Antivirus updates and apply baselines.
This package updates the anti-malware client, anti-malware engine, and signature versions in the OS installation images to following versions:. This package includes monthly updates and fixes to the Microsoft Defender antimalware platform and engine that's used by Microsoft Defender Antivirus in Windows This package also includes the latest security intelligence update that is available up to the date of release.
Different update packages are required for different Windows OS image architectures. Select the architecture that matches the installation image to which you will apply this update:. Microsoft Defender update for Windows Operating system installation image: bit bit. Note: These links point to defender-update-kit-[x86 x64]. Extract this. The following prerequisites apply to running this patching tool DefenderUpdateWinImage. Do not use this package to update live images because it can damage the Windows installation that Is running inside the Virtual Machine.
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