I’ve started to use Microsoft Defender. I’d like to keep the virus definitions updated automatically, while otherwise keeping Windows updates in general paused, but I can’t figure out how to do it. So for now, every time there’s a virus definition update, I get one of those annoying notifications telling me that I have to update something. I then have to dig into Settings | Update and Security, and manually do the download. There must be a better way.
I looked in Windows Updates | Windows Security | Virus and threat protection, and couldn’t find anything about updating. I then looked on the Microsoft website, and found instructions about how to use the group policy editor to set up automatic updates on startup. I followed the instructions, but that’s really not much of a solution, since I don’t restart my computer all that often. The MS website I found had a bunch of other stuff about MS Defender, but to the extent that it didn’t seem applicable, it was Greek to me, so here I am.
Is there a way to get the updates automatically? Is so how?
Please take into account that I’m a computer idiot.
Thanks.