services

[solbjerg]

Hi

Services is an important tool.

I expect that the commands in Run have lived through the transistions into newer OS's. (My XP is singing its swansong) :-)

So you open it by writing services.msc in Run and enter.

 

I recently had the problem that my security center told me that I had no antivirus program installed and gave me a warning in the tray-area

This wasn't true - my MSE worked fine, - so somehow the machine wasn't registering this.

I first tried a full diskscan, but this did not produce any change

I then opened services and found Microsoft Antimalware Service.

It showed that it was set to start automatically and that it was started.

On the off-chance that it was somehow hanging I restarted the service - and lo and behold the warning diasappered from the tray and the security center reported that all was well.

I have just written this to make readers aware that a hanging problem sometimes can be the culprit.

Unfortunately it doesn't tell you what caused the problem in the first place.

Cheers

solbjerg

[austingrd]

I then opened services and found Microsoft Antimalware Service.

 

Is this pre installed on Windows 7? I can't see it in services.msc.

[solbjerg]

Hi austin

I am sorry - perhaps it is called Windows Defender in Windows 7? (my reference frame was in a Danish version of XP)

Doesn't the services.msc in Run work in Windows 7?

Cheers

solbjerg

 

Is this pre installed on Windows 7? I can't see it in services.msc.

[donetao]

Hello! No MSE is not pre installed in W7. It is pre installed in W8 and must be turned on. In W8 it is called Windows defender and it can be activated . In W7 you must down load MSE

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/getting-started-with-security-essentials

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/defender-realtime-protection-on-off#1TC=windows-7

I hope this helps??:mrgreen:

[donetao]

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I hope this helps.

PS I use MSE! on my W7 PC!