> System: Vista Business Edition, avast! free edition, Windows Firewall.
> Windows Defender is set to Auto-start.
>
> At start up, Security Centre gives me the message that Windows Defender is
> not turned on, despite it being set to auto-start. Using Security Centre
> to turn on WD results in a 5 mins+ search for updates, then it returns a
> message saying no updates are available, and WD is still turned off.
>
> WD starts from the "All Programs" menu with no problems.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> TIA
> Andrew
> make sure you are not running MS One Care
> it turns off WD
> also if you are running it you need to remove avast because One Care has a
> built in antivirus program and you cannot run 2 antivirus programs
> robin
> "Andrew" <noway@forgetit.com> wrote in message
> news:C6D140BB-E2DA-48BB-9F39-F63D191FC1D5@microsoft.com...>> System: Vista Business Edition, avast! free edition, Windows Firewall.>
>> Windows Defender is set to Auto-start.
>>
>> At start up, Security Centre gives me the message that Windows Defender
>> is not turned on, despite it being set to auto-start. Using Security
>> Centre to turn on WD results in a 5 mins+ search for updates, then it
>> returns a message saying no updates are available, and WD is still turned
>> off.
>>
>> WD starts from the "All Programs" menu with no problems.
>>
>> Any ideas anyone?
>>
>> TIA
>> Andrew
>
> Robin,
>
> No need to uninstall Avast, if you want you can simply disable it from
> startup. Later if you decide to run it you can then disable whatever comes
> with One Care and then run Avast.
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
>
> "Robinb" <robinbk9_nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:ukcM11dlIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...>> make sure you are not running MS One Care>
>> it turns off WD
>> also if you are running it you need to remove avast because One Care has
>> a built in antivirus program and you cannot run 2 antivirus programs
>> robin
>> "Andrew" <noway@forgetit.com> wrote in message
>> news:C6D140BB-E2DA-48BB-9F39-F63D191FC1D5@microsoft.com...>>> System: Vista Business Edition, avast! free edition, Windows Firewall.>>
>>> Windows Defender is set to Auto-start.
>>>
>>> At start up, Security Centre gives me the message that Windows Defender
>>> is not turned on, despite it being set to auto-start. Using Security
>>> Centre to turn on WD results in a 5 mins+ search for updates, then it
>>> returns a message saying no updates are available, and WD is still
>>> turned off.
>>>
>>> WD starts from the "All Programs" menu with no problems.
>>>
>>> Any ideas anyone?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Andrew
>>
> Robin,
>
> No need to uninstall Avast, if you want you can simply disable it from
> startup. Later if you decide to run it you can then disable whatever comes
> with One Care and then run Avast.
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
>
> "Robinb" <robinbk9_nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:ukcM11dlIHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...> > make sure you are not running MS One Care>
> > it turns off WD
> > also if you are running it you need to remove avast because One Care has a
> > built in antivirus program and you cannot run 2 antivirus programs
> > robin
> > "Andrew" <noway@forgetit.com> wrote in message
> > news:C6D140BB-E2DA-48BB-9F39-F63D191FC1D5@microsoft.com...> >> System: Vista Business Edition, avast! free edition, Windows Firewall.> >
> >> Windows Defender is set to Auto-start.
> >>
> >> At start up, Security Centre gives me the message that Windows Defender
> >> is not turned on, despite it being set to auto-start. Using Security
> >> Centre to turn on WD results in a 5 mins+ search for updates, then it
> >> returns a message saying no updates are available, and WD is still turned
> >> off.
> >>
> >> WD starts from the "All Programs" menu with no problems.
> >>
> >> Any ideas anyone?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >> Andrew
> >
>
>> >> System: Vista Business Edition, avast! free edition, Windows Firewall.
>> >> Windows Defender is set to Auto-start.
Only one AV and there is no way I am turning it off.>> >> System: Vista Business Edition, avast! free edition, Windows Firewall.
>> >> Windows Defender is set to Auto-start.
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