Re: Windows Defender fails to initialize - error 0x800106ba


Dave Horne;965488 Wrote:
More info - If I uninstall McAfee Security Center 9.3, this problem goes
away. Since the items protected by Defender are already covered by
McAfee,
is there a way to either uninstall it or turn it permanently off?

Thanks, DH


"Dave Horne" <davehorne@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OrExn6KjJHA.1184@xxxxxx> > >
I just started getting this error (under Vista Home Premium SP1, up to
date).

I Googled and tried a few things such as 'net start windefend' at an
elevated command prompt. (That command also works fine at Run.) That
opens
the program and it runs just fine, but when I reboot, I receive that
same
message - something like - Windows Defender failed to initialze
0x800106ba.
I am told to reboot and check Help or something like that.

I tried to remove it under Control Panel \ Programs and Features but
it's
not listed. If I could have uninstalled it, I would have tried a
fresh
install but that seems not to be possible.

Ideas? Suggestions? (I also looked for a Defender forum in
news.microsoft.com, but there isn't one. I thought it OK to post
here.)

Thanks, Dave Horne



You will not be able to use windows defender when you have mcafee
installed. like other anti-virus softwares, mcafee will disable windows
firewall and defender to avoid duplicate notifications.

uninstalling and reinstalling mcafee would fix this issue (it would
reconfigure). but in your case you can uncheck windows defender from
startup items (msconfig) 'Article'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135) and set windows defender
service to Manual and stop the service.


--
prasathkumar

Thanks

Prasath S
.

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