You can scan individual files and folders using Windows Defender via File Explorer Context Menu, PowerShell, or Command Prompt in Windows 11/10.

Windows Defender allows you to perform a Custom scan that lets you specify the specific folder or drive you would like to scan for malware. As you only need to scan that one folder, the scan time ...

On Windows 11, you can use the Microsoft Defender Antivirus to scan individual files and folders to make sure they are not infected, and I'll show you four methods.

In this guide, we'll learn the steps to scan a file or specific folder manually using Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows 10.

Learn how to exclude programs, files and folders from McAfee, Kaspersky, Avast, Norton, AVG, Bitdefender, Malwarebytes, etc antivirus scans.

Windows Defender is built into Windows 10 to find malware. To improve performance for tasks like compiling code or running ...

Some viruses are specifically designed to cause havoc to certain programs, files, or folders. How to scan and repair Blizzard (Battle.net) game files ...

How to Find Duplicate Files on an External Hard Drive Without Searching Folders. Windows 8's built-in search function is pretty good at finding individual files and all the other files that share ...

Is there a free way to scan a group of PDF files to find the one that is reported corrupt? Acrobat Pro seems to just say "I skipped one file because it's either corrupt or you don't have access ...