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RE: Help. Windows Security Center acting up

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Old 08-16-2007   #1 (permalink)
Byron Followell
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RE: Help. Windows Security Center acting up

I hate answering my own questions but I kept searching for answers after I
posted this and finally found a fix on another post. I'm going to post it
here in case someone else comes along looking and finds my post.

To give proper credit, this answer came from dean-dean in response to an
original post by Danie_T. Thanks to both of them for the post or I'd still be
scratching my head (and maybe the other end too!) Anyway, here's what
dean-dean says:

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You could try this:

Right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator. Type the following
command:

winmgmt /verifyrepository

If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this command:

winmgmt /salvagerepository

The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands to
the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for the
services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may have to run
it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own.

Reboot your system.

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It worked fine for me and my Security Center is back to normal now.
Hopefully this will work for anyone else experiencing similar problems.

Sincerely,
- Byron


"Byron Followell" wrote:

> I've recently had a Windows Security Alert pop up on my task bar. When I
> click on it, it says I have no Malware protection. I have AVG Free on my
> system and it's always showed up before. I also have the default Windows
> Defender, in addition to Ad-Aware and Spybot installed. According to Windows
> Security Center, no antivirus software can be found on my computer and it
> shows Windows Defender is turned off. If I try to turn Windows Defender on, a
> window pops up saying it's looking for updates then it can't find any newer
> updates but it still never turns Windows Defender on. Something has gotten
> screwed up at some point and I haven't done anything to my system or
> installed anything whatsoever in recent history that should've caused this. I
> have no idea what is causing the problem or what I might do to fix it.
>
> Has anyone else out there experienced any similar issues? If anyone has any
> advice, please get in touch with me. Thanks in advance for any assistance
> anyone might be able to provide.
>
> Sincerely,
> - Byron Followell
>


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