Vista - Windows Defender Failed to Initialize

I have a dell studio 15 that I just got new in February. I have
experienced a lot of problems with it; mouse pad malfunction, the media
controls don't work, and yesterday, I had to do a Image Factory Restore
due to a blue screen loop I was caught it. The tech "support" at dell
was useless and despite paying for all the "warranties" they insisted
that I pay an additional 179.00 before they would even connect me to
someone who could help.

After doing the Image Restore yesterday, I turned on my computer this
morning and got the Windows Defender Error. I followed the steps in the
last post my neednonerd and that seems to have stopped that glitch.

Is anyone else experiencing problems with their Dell studios?


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I've been having this problem intermittently after automatic updates.
This is the first thing to fix it without a ton of work. Thanks!


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It would be nice and also customary to include ( append ) the fix that was
successful so that others can benefit.
That is the underlining principle of this and other newsgroup...... mutual
assistance.
It is not a one on one forum.
t-4-2



"NimbleBean" <NimbleBean.3xh1u2@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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As many have found out recently,that there's a fake virus pop-ups going
around claiming you need "Microsoft Security Service" to fix all the
fake pop-up viruses it states your PC has (mine said I had over 25)for a
mewre $89.

I found out quite by accident, that my windows defender wasn't
working(never thought to check it) as I have Cox and their "McAfee
Security Suite" of products that comes with Cox's service.

Again,and quite by accident while checking the services running under
'Task Mgr'. that 'windows defender' was 'stopped'.

I rt. clicked it,turned it on,ran a scan thast found the virus,deleted
it,and I haven't had a problem with any of the virus pop-ups since.(used
to have them constantly all day)

However, everytime I rebooted my PC I found that Windows defender was
turnewd off for some reason.

The fix up above resolved this problem so I don't have to go in and
manually turn on defender every time I reboot.

Thank you very much to 'neednonerd'


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