Vista - Windows Defender Error 0x80010005

I've been sporadically getting the following pop-up when my computer starts:

Windows Defender
Application failed to initialize: 0x80010005

It happened again today after I d/l a Windows update for Windows Defender,
coincidentally.
Anyone have ideas?

Thanks,
Walter

Walter Cohen wrote:
> I've been sporadically getting the following pop-up when my computer
> starts:
>
> Windows Defender
> Application failed to initialize: 0x80010005
>
> It happened again today after I d/l a Windows update for Windows
> Defender, coincidentally.
> Anyone have ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Walter

I believe that there is a patch out for Windows Defender which corrects
quite a few errors. Post your question in one of the newsgroups
specifically set up for that program. This is not one of them.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...s/default.mspx

These newsgroups can be accessed via NNTP or HTTP.

To access these newsgroups using NNTP, please use the following
information for your NNTP client (such as Microsoft Outlook Express):

- NNTP Server: privatenews.microsoft.com
- Account name: privatenews\spyware
- Password: spyware

NOTE: No password will be required via the HTTP link.


Malke
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I just wanted to share what i did to get rid of this error. I got a registry repair program that wasn't taking care of it. I remember the problem starting when i first downloaded avast so before doing a full recovery with like 5 days of program downloading (not fun) I uninstalled avast for the hell of it, then sinse startup always didn't manage to get windows live messenger beta running 100% i took that off too. Scanned the registry, rebooted, redownloaded the two programs but made sure the messenger wasn't the beta version and viola! no more error message. Hopeing this can help....

Hello unknown,

Without information I offer this


http://www.microsoft.com/communities...1-aafca76299dd

I hope is what you need.
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"unknown" wrote:

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