RE: Help. Windows Security Center acting up

I hate answering my own questions but I kept searching for answers after I

posted this and finally found a fix on another post. I'm going to post it

here in case someone else comes along looking and finds my post.

To give proper credit, this answer came from dean-dean in response to an

original post by Danie_T. Thanks to both of them for the post or I'd still be

scratching my head (and maybe the other end too!) Anyway, here's what

dean-dean says:

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You could try this:

Right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator. Type the following

command:

winmgmt /verifyrepository

If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this command:

winmgmt /salvagerepository

The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands to

the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for the

services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may have to run

it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own.

Reboot your system.

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It worked fine for me and my Security Center is back to normal now.

Hopefully this will work for anyone else experiencing similar problems.

Sincerely,

- Byron

"Byron Followell" wrote:

> I've recently had a Windows Security Alert pop up on my task bar. When I

> click on it, it says I have no Malware protection. I have AVG Free on my

> system and it's always showed up before. I also have the default Windows

> Defender, in addition to Ad-Aware and Spybot installed. According to Windows

> Security Center, no antivirus software can be found on my computer and it

> shows Windows Defender is turned off. If I try to turn Windows Defender on, a

> window pops up saying it's looking for updates then it can't find any newer

> updates but it still never turns Windows Defender on. Something has gotten

> screwed up at some point and I haven't done anything to my system or

> installed anything whatsoever in recent history that should've caused this. I

> have no idea what is causing the problem or what I might do to fix it.

>

> Has anyone else out there experienced any similar issues? If anyone has any

> advice, please get in touch with me. Thanks in advance for any assistance

> anyone might be able to provide.

>

> Sincerely,

> - Byron Followell

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