How do i fix error 0x8007042B Windows Defender

[Jacob_337]

Hey guys, I was sitting at idle monitoring task manager because lately I have noticed CPU usage and disk usage spike to about 20% after I let my laptop sit for about 4 minutes on idle. This was due to the antimalware service executable, so, I went to task scheduler to tweak Windows Defender Scheduled Scan Condition options but before I could do that, I noticed an error on both Windows Defender Cache Maintenance & Windows Defender Cleanup saying "The process terminated unexpectedly, 0x8007042B" so it seems each time I go idle, those two tasks terminate unexpectedly...I assume that's because

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