From the course: Windows 10 Creators Update Essential Training (2017)
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Protect a computer from viruses and troubleshoot problems - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 10 Creators Update Essential Training (2017)
Protect a computer from viruses and troubleshoot problems
- [Voiceover] In this movie, I want to consider the health of your computer. That means protecting it from viruses or malware. But it also includes settings or configurations that could cause things to work improperly or more slowly. There are a few tools in Windows 10 that help you protect your computer and monitor its overall health. And I want to start with Windows Defender, which we can find by going into settings. So I'll go into the Start menu to settings, then to the category labeled Update and Security. And then I want to select Windows Defender over here on the left side. In previous versions of Windows, you would've had a few options for Windows Defender here that you could turn on or off as well as a button to launch the Windows Defender application. Now, we only have that button, so I'm going to click on that to launch it, which opens up a completely separate application. This is Windows Defender. If you've used Windows Defender in the past, you'll notice that the…
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