Microsoft securityessentials2/14/2024 A full reinstall is always daunting, but it got my house PC boot time down from 4 minutes to less than 1, so it'll be well worth the time spent. And for good measure I changed Antimalware - > Recovery -> Subsequent failures to Restart the service.Įverything works just dandy now, whether I understand it or not. I don't really understand things at this level - but I'd just made a complete Paragon system backup anyway, so I changed it to Automatic. This is one of the best means to protect your. After further investigation I discovered that the Microsoft Antimalware service depends on Remote Procedure Call (RPC), which was set to StartUp type Manual. In Windows 10, Security Essentials are referred to as Windows Defender. Bingo! - Security Essentials icon immediately changed from red to green!Īll was not sweetness and light though, since I had to restart the service every time the machine booted up. I'm not sure exactly what I changed (almost certainly something in the WiseCare StartUpServices facility), but the net result was Microsoft Security Essentials wasn't working "because the app's service stopped", and clicking on the rather promising Start now button didn't apparently do anything.Īfter calling on my Google-fu, I ended up in Administrative Tools - > Services, where I restarted the Microsoft Antimalware service. I've just had to deal with this very problem after installing Wise Care 365 and following all its suggestions for optimising my XP Pro system (recently reinstalled, and laboriously shoved though Windows Update).
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