Engel - you should retire this tip--only in some form of museum will you
find the code that has this issue running--this was an important tip for
beta1, but that is long gone.
On XP, the first thing to check for this error is the version number of
Windows Defender--and if it is less than 1593, go to
www.microsoft.com and
download the released version. If the version in place is 1592, they will
need to do an uninstall before installing the downloaded version, otherwise
they can simply run the downloaded file.
I do see one report of this error on Vista, but with an additional error
message--I've no clear idea what to do about that one--it is not likely to
be related to this message on XP.
(the same error message will be generated whenever the service fails to
initialize, which can have multiple causes--so there can be multiple causes
of this error--but for XP, now, the out-of-date executable is the first
thing to test.)
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