Windows 10 Windows Defender Quick Scans Issues

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Laptop PC running Win 10 Pro, 64-bit, v21H1. Running only Windows Defender with new viral definitions files being installed regularly via Windows Update. This PC has never had any other anti-viral software installed. The Windows Defender icon in notification area had a yellow alert and WD screen said a Quick Scan was due. Clicked to start Quick Scan and it showed increasing numbers of files scanned and increasing time running, but it ran for hours and hours without finsihing. The previously logged Quick Scan was ~2 weeks ago, took only ~4 min, and scanned ~53K files. Stopped the scan, reboo

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