Directory C:/Program Files/Windows Defender

This page is about hard disk directory (on Windows operating systems, directory is nicknamed "folder") C:/Program Files/Windows Defender Folders on hard disk contain files - data, exefiles, dlls and other types. Directory can contain almost any number of files, up to thousands or even hundreds of thousands. But typical folder holds something between ten to one or two hundred files. There are also two special "subfolders" of C:/Program Files/Windows Defender, one is named "." (yes, single dot) and serves as an alias for C:/Program Files/Windows Defender itself, second is named ".." (two dots) and is an alias for a parent folder "C:/Program Files". This Directory is not very frequent.

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Directory information

Name:	C:/Program Files/Windows Defender
Parent:	C:/Program Files
Operating system folder:
Can be safely deleted:
Contains user's data:
Contains logfiles:
Is temporary:

Subdirectories of C:/Program Files/Windows Defender:

• C:/Program Files/Windows Defender/Offline

Windows exe files found in folder C:/Program Files/Windows Defender:

Be remembered that there can be also other files in the same directory, like INI files, DLLs, data etc. SpeedUtilitites lists only EXE files and log files here, so list below is not exhaustive.

ConfigSecurityPolicy.exe
DlpUserAgent.exe
MSASCui.exe
MSASCuiL.exe
MpCmdRun.exe
MpCopyAccelerator.exe
MpDefenderCoreService.exe
MpDlpCmd.exe
MpDlpService.exe
MpUXSrv.exe
MsMpEng.exe
NisSrv.exe
mpextms.exe

Other directories

C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/VSTA/8.0, C:/Program Files/WindowsApps/cyberlinkcorp.th.powerdvdforlenovo_14.1.9528.0_x86__m916jedk64snt/VFS, C:/Program Files/QGIS 3.28.1/apps/grass/grass78/driver, C:/Program Files (x86)/InstallShield Installation Information/{123BDDDC-D02F-4C6E-A011-9CB265E2483E}, C:/Program Files (x86)/PCGameBoost/Smart Game Booster/5.2.0/DrvInstall, C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_192/bin, C:/Program Files (x86)/TweakBit, C:/Program Files/Intel/SUR/QUEENCREEK, C:/Program Files (x86)/National Instruments/NI-488.2/Bin, C:/Program Files/WindowsApps/SAMSUNGELECTRONICSCoLtd.SamsungNotes_4.3.239.0_x64__wyx1vj98g3asy/SamsungNotesBridgeWPF,

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