

use a different 3rd party antivirus (for example AVG FREE) as alternative, instead of Windows Defender disable the Controlled Folder Access function of Windows Defender

while-list Hard Disk Sentinel in Windows Defender as you did I'm still checking the possibilities about displaying a warning message when the software itself blocked and attempt to make some other changes, but generally I can't "break" the blocking (and I never want it of course).

I'd be more than happy if that would be "bug" in Hard Disk Sentinel (as then I can fix it) but this bug is related to Windows Defender. Until the user manually add HDSentinel.exe to the list of exclusions. Is still blocked: several IOCTL calls can't work as resulted "access denied" errors (even if the software runsīecause of this, Hard Disk Sentinel can't communicate with SCSI, SAS, USB, firewire, NVMe drives now, However, it seems the problem is still not really solved.Īccording users, Hard Disk Sentinel (while it does not contain malware, the submission results are safe) Thanks for your message and thanks for your excellent support. So as the software is marked clean, I see no reasons of blocking. Best regards, Windows Defender Response " Reported Scenario did not get generated at ourĮnd. "Hello Janos, Thank you for contacting Microsoft. I contacted Microsoft immediately when the issue first detected, submitted the latest version for analysing. Yes, the solution is to manually add the software to the list of exceptions, as this way it will be allowed to work as should, to access the disks like previously. If a software (Hard Disk Sentinel) works for 10+ years similarly on all Windows versions (and even without problems with Windows 10 for long time) I see no reasons of blocking.Ĭontrolled Folder Access seems blocking everything - and I have no real idea why. I definitely agree that there is a bug: this is a problem with Windows Defender, more precisely its "Controlled Folder Access" function. May I ask why you posted in the "Bug reports" topic? I know this is annoying, but I can confirm that it is absolutely not a bug/limitation of Hard Disk Sentinel. Thanks for your message and excuse me for the troubles.
