I have windows 8.1 and Windows Defender will not start. If I open defender and try to start nothing happens. I go to services and try to set it to automatic, but automatic is grayed out. If while in services, I click on Start it starts and the immediately shuts down. The only other antivirus program I have installed is Malwarebytes Pro. But I even temporarily disable it, but still can't start Defender. When I open Defender and want to click on Update, it is completely frozen and nothing happens. I thought I could uninstall it in Control Panel, but it's not listed there. Since I do have Malwarebytes Pro which is a good malware program, I'm not going to worry about it too much. But there should be a way to get it running.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion g7-120us Notebook
- Memory
- 8 GIG