Security Center

[Willy]

I've WIN XP SP2 and when I click Start>Control Panel>Security Center, it
tells me the Security Center has either been stopped or not started and to
close the window and Restart the PC. Well I've done this 3 times now and
Security still says the above.
How can I resolve this problem?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I've WIN XP SP2 and when I click Start>Control Panel>Security Center, it
tells me the Security Center has either been stopped or not started and to
close the window and Restart the PC. Well I've done this 3 times now and
Security still says the above.
How can I resolve this problem?

Do you have something like McAfee Security Suite, Nort's Suite or
Trend-Micro's suite installed?

 

[Willy]

I have Norton Internet Security 2006 Installed

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I've WIN XP SP2 and when I click Start>Control Panel>Security Center, it
tells me the Security Center has either been stopped or not started and to
close the window and Restart the PC. Well I've done this 3 times now and
Security still says the above.
How can I resolve this problem?

Do you have something like McAfee Security Suite, Nort's Suite or
Trend-Micro's suite installed?

I have Norton Internet Security 2006 Installed

That's your answer. It has probably taken over the functionality of the
security center.

Personally - I cannot stand the all-in-one products such as that, as they
generally only do one of their designed purposes well and kludge the rest
and they take up HUGE amounts of resources in comparison to other
applications individually. However - whatever makes you most comfortable is
what you should do.. But it has probably disabled the Windows Security
Center because it performs those functions for you now.

 

[Willy]

It does have a Personal Firewall built-in that supposedly does more than the
XP Firewall. I've been using NIS since 2004 with no problems. Just that
with NIS 2005 Security Center was on and showed Norton was providing those
services, just installed NIS 2006 and it doesn't show that. I'll send them
a note to & see what they say.

 

[Willy]

Symantec sent me the below fix for this issue:

1) Click on Start > Run.
2) Type the following and press enter:

services.msc

3) Check if the service "Security Center" is started. If the service is not
started then, right click on the service and click on start option.--[START
WAS GRAY BUT I RIGHT-CLICKED THEN SELECTED PROPERTIES, SET IT TO AUTOMATIC,
RESTARTED PC AND SECURITY CENTER IS RUNNING NOW AND HAS NIS 2006 AS BEING
THE FIREWALL AND ANTIVIRUS]

4) Click on OK.
5) Restart computer and check for the issue.