Custom Scaning Using Windows Defender

This is my learning from Google Search today......

I downloaded a utility to check how much extra RAM my laptop supports and immediately saw drop in my internet speed. I suspected that this utility might have done something wrong. I tried to scan this file, but I had no idea on how to do it.....So I went to my friend.....Google Search! and found this....

steps:
1. Click windows logo button and type 'Defender', and then select 'Windows Defender' from the options shown
2. Once the Windows Defender tool is opened, click Home Tab
3. Select Custom options on the right side and click Scan
4. This will open a window to select a folder or file to scan it. Select the folder or file which you to scan
Done!

I also got to learn some utilities on how to scan files easily

Utility 1: drop the file onto this utility to scan
steps:
1. Click windows logo button and type 'notepad', and select notepad editor
2. copy paste the following into Notepad
@ECHO OFF
"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" -Scan -ScanType 3 -File %1
PAUSE
3. Save this file with your preferred name e.g. 'DefenderScan.cmd', but with an extension of '.cmd'. Also select 'All Files' in Save as type option, else it will be saved as text file
Done!

Now you can drop any file you want to scan onto this utility which will start scanning that file

Utility 2: Right Click the file and send to Defender to Scan!
steps:
1. Create the utility from the above steps
2. Open Windows Explorer with shortcut 'windows button + E'
3. Click View menu on top [if it is not visible, use shortcut 'Ctrl+F1']
4. Select 'Hidden Items' checkbox to show hidden files
5. Go to this location 'C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo'
6. Copy the utility file created before and paste in this folder
Done!
Right click the file you want to scan and select 'Send to->Defender Scan'

Hope you got something to learn new from this post.
Courtesy link:
https://www.winhelp.us/windows-defender-on-demand-scan-in-windows-8.html