This policy setting allows you to specify the day of the week on which to perform a scheduled scan. The scan can also be configured to run every day or to never run at all.
This setting can be configured with the following ordinal number values:
(0x0) Every Day
(0x1) Sunday
(0x2) Monday
(0x3) Tuesday
(0x4) Wednesday
(0x5) Thursday
(0x6) Friday
(0x7) Saturday
(0x8) Never (default)
If you enable this setting, a scheduled scan will run at the frequency specified.
If you disable or do not configure this setting, a scheduled scan will run at a default frequency.
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Enabled Value | 1 |
Disabled Value | 0 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 8 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 0 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 4 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 5 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 6 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scan |
Value Name | ScheduleDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 7 |