Security Center Problems (Vista Ultimate)

[Peter]

Vista's Security Center is not showing my McAfee products (Vista compatible
I assure you - they showed OK in my beta RC2 Vista) plus it says that
Windows Defender is off, but it is very much on.
When I click "Turn on" all it does is check for updates.
As I'm having this trouble plus intermittent connectivity problems and can
never view my internet connection or network for some unknown reason I think
I'm going to have to format and reinstall.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Ultimate fully updated
P4 D865GBFL HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 700gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[Rock]

Vista's Security Center is not showing my McAfee products (Vista
compatible I assure you - they showed OK in my beta RC2 Vista) plus it
says that Windows Defender is off, but it is very much on.
When I click "Turn on" all it does is check for updates.
As I'm having this trouble plus intermittent connectivity problems and can
never view my internet connection or network for some unknown reason I
think I'm going to have to format and reinstall.

What happens without the McAfee products installed?

 

[Peter]

In the end I reformatted. I was having so many problems. I think caused by
unwise use of an application called TweakVista.

Peter

 

[Rock]

In the end I reformatted. I was having so many problems. I think caused
by unwise use of an application called TweakVista.

Sounds like a good explanation for the problems. Glad it's sorted out now.

 

[Peter]

Another symptom I was getting was that I got a screen "Press ctrl-alt-delete
to sign in" before the actual sign in screen...weird. All OK now thank God.

 

[Guest]

Please perform the following to resolve your issues.

Open elevated command prompt and type cd\windows\system32\wbem press enter

Then type ren repository repository.old and press enter.

Restart the computer and check your security center again hopefully
everything should be working there.

Thanks and Regards

Mohit Kapoor

 

[dean-dean]

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.