- Jan 26, 2014
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After letting my little brother on my computer for the weekend, he seams to have made a mess of it and now, for some unknown reason, my Windows Defender is not running. When I type "Defender" into the search bar at the start menu and click on Windows Defender, it comes up with the following:
This program is turned off
If you are using another program that checks for harmful or unwanted software, use the Action Center to check for that program's status.
If you would like to use this program, click here to turn it on.
But when I click it, it doesn't do anything. So I then decided to go into Task Manager and check if the service was running... WHICH IT WASN'T! So, I right click on it and click Start Service and it starts, but then it stops again, then starts again, then stops again. Constantly. So I right click again and click on Services... in the bottom and go to Windows Defender again, right click and bring up properties. I then press Start and it comes up with the following message:
The Windows Defender Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs.
So, I then change Startup type: to Automatic then go to the Recovery tab and change Subsequent failures to Restart the Service, change Restart Service after: to 0 minutes and click the tick box and press Apply. I try and open it again by searching for defender and and clicking on it and clicking on the "Click here to turn it on" link, and then it just keeps starting, stopping for ever.
I then download MalwareBytes and do a full disk scan and that didn't find anything, and I also go to Add or Remove Programs to see if there was anything recently installed, and there wasn't and nothing was downloaded either.
I also did a little research and I typed this into a raised CMD "sc start WinDefend Enable." and the following came up:
SERVICE_NAME: WinDefend
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING
<NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN>
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 <0x0>
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 <0x0>
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x7d0
PID : 6212
FLAG :
I don't know if this will help in anyway, but I can say that the PID was always changing because I wanted to make sure nothing changed and that is the only thing that did.
Please, someone help. I don't know what has done this and I don't know what to fix it.
This program is turned off
If you are using another program that checks for harmful or unwanted software, use the Action Center to check for that program's status.
If you would like to use this program, click here to turn it on.
But when I click it, it doesn't do anything. So I then decided to go into Task Manager and check if the service was running... WHICH IT WASN'T! So, I right click on it and click Start Service and it starts, but then it stops again, then starts again, then stops again. Constantly. So I right click again and click on Services... in the bottom and go to Windows Defender again, right click and bring up properties. I then press Start and it comes up with the following message:
The Windows Defender Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs.
So, I then change Startup type: to Automatic then go to the Recovery tab and change Subsequent failures to Restart the Service, change Restart Service after: to 0 minutes and click the tick box and press Apply. I try and open it again by searching for defender and and clicking on it and clicking on the "Click here to turn it on" link, and then it just keeps starting, stopping for ever.
I then download MalwareBytes and do a full disk scan and that didn't find anything, and I also go to Add or Remove Programs to see if there was anything recently installed, and there wasn't and nothing was downloaded either.
I also did a little research and I typed this into a raised CMD "sc start WinDefend Enable." and the following came up:
SERVICE_NAME: WinDefend
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING
<NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN>
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 <0x0>
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 <0x0>
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x7d0
PID : 6212
FLAG :
I don't know if this will help in anyway, but I can say that the PID was always changing because I wanted to make sure nothing changed and that is the only thing that did.
Please, someone help. I don't know what has done this and I don't know what to fix it.
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