Disable Windows Defender Summary Notifications in Windows 11/10

Are you getting a lot of notifications on Windows 10 and looking to suppress them a bit? In this article, we have explained how to disable such a notification that you receive daily. Well, it is none other than Windows Defender Summary Notification. Windows Defender is Windows' built-in antivirus solution that protects you against all kinds of threats. While it shows you a notification whenever it finds something fishy, ​​it also shows a notification if it doesn't find anything. In this article, we will see how to disable these notifications.

Disable Windows Defender summary notifications

While there's nothing wrong with getting these notifications, they can be a little annoying at times. Or you may already see a lot of notifications and turning off a few can be a relief. Disabling Windows Defender summary notifications will not disable Windows Defender. It will continue to run in the background and protect you against threats, but it will stop showing you notifications about background scans.

This will not stop critical notifications about malicious files or viruses. Overall, all notifications with a positive result will not be displayed at all.

Follow the steps below to see how to disable Windows Defender summary notifications on Windows 11/10.

1: Find Windows Defender Security Center in the start menu and start the application. Here you will be able to see the status of all security modules in Windows Defender.

2: Click the Settings icon in the lower left corner.

3: Now under Virus & threat protection notifications uncheck the box that says Recent activity and scan results.

This should disable summary notifications from Windows Defender, but you will still receive notifications about critical items, as I said before. There is another level of notifications that you can turn off. Just below that checkbox is another one that says Threat detected, but no immediate action is needed. Uncheck this box if you want no notification to be displayed for certain medium-level threats that do not require your action. Or threats that were automatically resolved by Windows Defender in the background. This is an additional setting you might consider if you're looking to disable notifications.

There is another Files or activities are blocked checkbox – we do not recommend clearing it. It is the one that sends you notifications about critical things. You will always be protected, but you will never know what malware entered your computer and what was the source. You need to enable these notifications so that you can identify the source of the threats.

This is how you can disable Windows Defender Digest and other types of notifications in Windows 11/10.

If you want to turn off other notifications, head over to the Notifications section in Settings.

Read more: Remove Windows Defender Action Required or Recommended notification.