ive got vista and the windows security center is telling me that windows defender and my anti viris and firewalls are not running when i can see them and use them how can i get around this prob thanks for you time in advance
Perhaps the software might be corrupted, does windows vista still have system restore, if so you should do that from when the software was working/when your computer didn't prompt you about the software not existing.
Vista here too. I had a similar, but not identical, problem recently. In my case, although McAfee had been completely uninstalled (and it was), SC reported that I had two firewalls and two antivirus scanners running: BitDefender and the "old" McAfee. RUN THE FOLLOWING AS ADMINISTRATOR: > c: > cd \windows\system32\wbem > winmgmt /verifyrepository [enter] If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this command: winmgmt /salvagerepository [enter] 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. If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do the following: > net stop winmgmt [enter] > ren repository repository.old [enter] > net start winmgmt [enter] RESTART VISTA The sequence above eradicated my problem. It might, yours.
