WD fails to start after installing IE 7 Beta

[Guest]

In setting up a new Virtual Computer using Microsoft's Virtual PC, today I
downloaded and installed Windows Defender. It worked fine.

I then downloaded and installed IE 7 Beta. After a reboot, WD generates a
popup message saying that it could not start, start it manually or search in
Help and Support. I can go into services.mmc and start Windows Defender ok.

Here is the error from the System Event Log:
Type: Error Event ID: 7000

The Windows Defender Service service failed to start due to the following
error:
The servie did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.

As I said I can start it manually. I tried reinstalling WD and there were
no errors, but I get the same error on reboot.

Beside the normal startup stuff I am loading Computer Associates My-Etrust
anti-virus software (this was loaded first).

Virtual OS is Windows XP Pro with all of the latest updates, 384MB ram and
16GB disk.
Host OS is Windows Media Center 2005 with all of the latest services patches.
Computer is an AMD Athalon 64 bit, with 2GB ram and 200Gb disk.

What shoulld I try next?

Thanks in Advance,

Jesse

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I haven't seen any issue between Windows Defender and IE7 in various builds,
on real machines. I haven't tried the combination on a VPC.

My first thought is that perhaps this is a one-time fluke--try another boot.

If it isn't a fluke, you might want to bring it up in a VPC related public
group:

Microsoft.public.vpc, on msnews.microsoft.com (NNTP)
or
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...x?dg=microsoft.public.virtualpc&lang=en&cr=US

 

[Guest]

Tried multiple reboots with same results.

--Jesse

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Let me know if you post to the VPC support groups, and whether there's a
useful result. I can't quickly replicate this, the VPC I have handy is
Windows 2000, and it'd take me awhile to create an XP version--but I'd be
willing to ask in another forum where some VPC experts hang out whether
folks have this combination running.

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[Guest]

Bill,

I posted it to the Virtual PC group right after replying to your previous
post. I will let you know if I get a usefull response.

--Jesse

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I'm watching that thread and asked myself in a private group. I had a reply
from the same Microsoft staffer who spoke up in your thread stating that he
didn't have this running, but was unaware of any conflict--He's generally
authoritative--so I'm not sure where to go from here. I may see if I've got
the disk space and time to set this up myself over the weekend.

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[Guest]

Bill,

Would it help if I offered to send you the virtual PC? Can I legally do this?

--Jesse

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

I think you can't do that legally--it constitutes an install of the OS,
every one of which requires a valid license. I've got everything I need,
and it would be good to have the virtual machine around for testing--so far,
I've only got one image, and that one is running Windows 2000.

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[Bill Sanderson MVP]

OK - so far, I can't repro this. I created a VPC, and installed XP Home on
it. I then patched it up to date, and installed Windows Defender and
brought it up to date and did a quickscan.

Following that, I installed IE7 beta2, which required a reboot. All appears
well--no conflicts noted.

I'll go back and reboot it again this morning, and also check the log files,
but this isn't happening for me.

I take it you added the "extensions"?

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