Turning on win defender in windows 8

rajanrr

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Dec 15, 2016
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I followed the steps but could not turn on win defender. When tried to double click win def from conrol panel, I got message "This application has been turned off and is not monitoring your computer"
 
Solution
Press START
Type SERVICES
sort SERVICES by NAME
Go down to WINDOWS DEFENDER

Right click, and select PROPERTIES
select the STARTUP TYPE dropdown menu.
Select AUTOMATIC (DELAYED START)

Restart, reopen services to confirm it started.
Press START
Type SERVICES
sort SERVICES by NAME
Go down to WINDOWS DEFENDER

Right click, and select PROPERTIES
select the STARTUP TYPE dropdown menu.
Select AUTOMATIC (DELAYED START)

Restart, reopen services to confirm it started.
 
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