Seems Sygate Personal Firewall is having some issues with v5.6.0 2808, and
yahoo messenger having their own issues. Haven't sussed out Defender yet.

"JoeBloggs" wrote:

> I successfully installed Windows Defender sometime ago now after installing
> the Client for Micosoft Networks. However recently it has failed to
> initialize and am getting the error message 0x800106ba again. I checked the
> Client for Micosoft Networks and noticed it had somehow become unticked
> (uninstalled?). I reinstalled it, and Windows Defender, but am still getting
> the error message on start up. I also have Sygate Personal Firewall, and use
> Yahoo Messenger 7 which are both failing to start up, even with uninstall and
> reinstall. Is anyone else having any similar problems? I might have moved
> some program files around recently so will look in to whether or not this has
> affected anything. Any feedback appreciated.
>
> "Ted Lake" wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "Shintaro Furumoto" wrote:
> >
> > > Windows Defender was installed automatically, removing the Windows
> > > Antispyware thas was installed. But it failed to inicialize, and shows a
> > > message box:
> > >
> > > "Application failed to inicialize: 0x800106ba . a problem caused Windows
> > > Defender Service to stop. To start the service restart the computer or search
> > > help and Support on how to start a service manually. "
> > >
> > > Restarting , the same message box is showed again. If I tray to start
> > > manually, the same message box is showed.
> > > Someone has a hint about ?
> > >

[waves_shore]

"Application failed to inicialize: 0x800106ba . a problem caused Windows
Defender Service to stop. To start the service restart the computer or search
help and Support on how to start a service manually. "

Restarting , the same message box is showed again. If I tray to start
manually, the same message box is showed.
Someone has a hint about ?[/QUOTE]

[waves_shore]

"Application failed to inicialize: 0x800106ba . a problem caused Windows
Defender Service to stop. To start the service restart the computer or search
help and Support on how to start a service manually. "

Restarting , the same message box is showed again. If I tray to start
manually, the same message box is showed.
Someone has a hint about ?[/QUOTE]

[dave m]

"Application failed to inicialize: 0x800106ba . a problem caused Windows
Defender Service to stop. To start the service restart the computer or search
help and Support on how to start a service manually. "

[LuigiLong]

Just overcame the same issue, and did a bit of everything suggested earlier:

Typed in "net start windefend" at the command prompt (Start key, Run, typed cmd, then Enter key, until you get the black background with white writing, much like the old DOS prompt);

The command did NOT execute. I then went to Start, Add/Remove Programs, and removed Windows Defender (tried to repair, but this proved unsuccesful also);

Went to www.microsoft.com and downloaded latest version of Windows Defender, and everything went smoothly after that.

I had noticed, however, when returning to the Defender home page, that the Beta version of Defender I had been using (along w/ Windows Live OneCare) expired on 31DEC2006.

Thanks to everyone for collectively helping me to resolve this problem.

[preynolds2]

I'm getting the same message. I cannot find out how to fix it.

[Ian]

Here's a page with the fix if anyone is still getting the problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931849

[soumik_mukherjee]

i went to services.msc and make it automatic and then statred it and it works.thanks a lot for sharing the solution

[discov8]

Tried them all, then tried post #7 worked a treat many thanks

[loachspit]

I came across the solution by accident and thought I'd share it with the world before moving on since I had this problem forever and would never go away. PS, I had Vista 64 and had this error ever since installing McAfee shortly after buying my computer. I'd always be told that the "Application Failed to Initialize: 0x800106ba."

1) I first started Windows Defender (This probably isn't necessary but happened to be the first thing I did)

Start --> "Run" --> Type in "net start windefend" (without the quotes of course).

(If that didn't do anything, that's okay... Just move on to #2 below)

2) The following I believe is the real fix (the step above probably wasn't necessary but was what I did before doing the stuff below:


Go to your Control Panel --> Systems and Maintenance --> Administrative Tools --> Double Click on the “Services” icon --> Select Windows Defender --> Click on “Stop the service” --> Then restart it by clicking on “Start the service”.

For whatever reason, the above combination (probably the result of just #2) seemed to work.