starting windows defender

[Guest]

Hello there - I finally managed to download and install windows defender, but
now I cannot start the darn thing. A window pops up and says "Application
failed to initialize: 0x800106ba. A problem caused Windows Defender service
to stop. To start the service, restart your computer (which I did) or search
Help and Support on how to start the service manually." Does anyone have any
tips on how to get started? Thanks,

 

[Peter M]

Defender is built into Vista so if you dl'ed and install the beta2, I
believe that's only for XP.

 

[Guest]

Defender is built into Vista so if you dl'ed and install the beta2, I
believe that's only for XP.

 

[Guest]

Defender installed when I installed Vista, but I too get the same error code.
Also get a box that states that a DLL is not loading properly.

Not that defender is really needed, but it would be nice if it worked.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Also, after a month, today Defender actually had a successful automatic
update. All the others failed so far until today. It updated today with
definition 1.14.1530.8 for defender KB915597. But after rebooting Defender
still will not start. I get the same error code 0x800106ba.

Have not seen this issue covered in the help files so far...

Defender installed when I installed Vista, but I too get the same error code.
Also get a box that states that a DLL is not loading properly.

Not that defender is really needed, but it would be nice if it worked.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Vipin]

I have never got the defender working on XP Professional SP2 at my office.
But works fine on Vista and on XP Home SP2 at home.

 

[Guest]

If you go into task manager, select "services" tab, as well as the services
button. You will then be brought to a window with a list of "services."
Navigate to Windows defender, click on it, then on the top left, you should
see the option to start manually. Do that, and then open windows defender.