1 – Open the command prompt as an administrator. To do this, type cmd in the windows search then hold Ctrl + Shift keys together and hit enter.

2 – A user account control window will open. Click on yes

3 – Copy and paste the below commands in the command prompt one by one and hit enter. These commands will disable the Windows defender tasks

schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\Windows Defender Cache Maintenance" /Disable > NUL 2>&1schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\Windows Defender Cleanup" /Disable > NUL 2>&1

schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\Windows Defender Scheduled Scan" /Disable > NUL 2>&1

schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\Windows Defender Verification" /Disable > NUL 2>&1

4 – After the commands are executed successfully, now copy and paste the below command in the command prompt window then hit enter. This command will delete Windows Defender mpcache files.

del "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\mpcache*" /s > NUL 2>&1

 5 – Now you can check if the mpcache files are deleted. To cross verify you can go to the Widnows explorer by pressing Windows + E keys together. Then navigate to the following path.

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans

6 – Here, before you could see all the mpcache files. Now after executing the above commands the mpcache files would have been deleted.