[minnesota_bound]

Press the Start button and type “Windows Defender Security Center.”

Why do I have to type such a long sentence?
How about telling us where to click on an icon.

From what I see in the screenshots the writer could have said:
Click the Start button then Settings then the Windows Defender link then “Open Windows Defender Security Center” button.

Once you know your way around Settings it is easy to find everything.
Remembering a gazillion names of programs is not.

“Allow an app through Controlled folder access.” This option will whitelist the apps that are allowed to access, edit, create or remove files from protected folders.

Good luck with that. How many people know what and where to find the app? Nice of them to include this but Malwarebytes will protect your whole pc and not allow ransomware on it to begin with.

[FXRP]

You are assuming much about the average user. Most of them can't navigate the start menu to start a program. They are still using the space bar to make things line up in Word and think the computer is broken when things aren't quite perfect on the printout.

Don't assume they even know which folders have the data they want to protect. They don't. I once drove 60 miles to fix a printer problem for an office with 12 workers. The maid had unplugged it to plug in her vacuum cleaner.

Where I worked, when users had emergencies that any 12 year old could fix, we called it “polishing their screen.” It was a daily occurrence.

[rockrr]

Good point. As a matter of fact they needlessly complicated things. If you click Start and start typing "Defender" (without the quotes) while focusing on the results that appear at the top of the pane and by d e f e it will display the link to the program.

[UB355]

You click on the windows defender icon in the task bar, not that difficult .