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[aberg]

After upgrading MSE to 4.0 I always get a warning from Action Center that MSE isn't activated when i reboot..
Nothing has changed in my setup since previous version of MSE. (Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1, Windows Firewall)
I have no other anti-virus and there is no problem to reactivate, it's just annoying.
MSE seems to work as it should activated or not.
Does anyone have a suggestion?

[Nazmus Shakib Khandaker]

Try uninstalling MSE completely and reinstall MSE.

[Princess Katie Pixie]

You can remove that problem by following these two simple steps

• Go to Control Panel
• Click on System and Security
• Click on Administrative Tools
• Click on Services
• Find Microsoft Security Essentials Antimalware on the list and click on Automatic from the popup menu.

If it's stopped click on Start service on the list.

All fixed.

[aberg]

Thanks for your replies. I have reinstalled MSE and checked that it is on automatic start in services.
Another strange thing is that action center is asking me if I trust this program to be started (msseces.exe), but it is already running?
Does MSE (or action center) depend on any other service to run?

[Princess Katie Pixie]

I don't even have that problem ever. The easiest way to fix your problems completely is to do a clean install of the OS.

But first get the drivers and neccesary softwares before you do it. And everythin should be fix completely.

[aberg]

I don't even have that problem ever. The easiest way to fix your problems completely is to do a clean install of the OS.

But first get the drivers and neccesary softwares before you do it. And everythin should be fix completely.

Sorry, but reinstall everything is not an option, it would take me days to get all back in place. If necessary I rather switch to another anti-virus.
But MSE is still working, it's just the annoying message from action center.

[DJGM]

The easiest way to fix your problems completely is to do a clean install of the OS.

No, it isn't. I'm sick of such amateur hour solutions that don't solve anything. A complete system wash 'n' wipe is NOT
the way to fix a problem such as this. Reinstalling the OS can take up a lot of time, and should only ever really be a
last resort option. If the OS is pretty much hosed due to malware, or some other similarly serious issue, and all
other possible options to rectify the problems have been exhausted, then yes, reinstall the OS.

Suggesting a reinstall of the OS for a relatively trivial issue, is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[osuwildlifer]

The easiest way to fix your problems completely is to do a clean install of the OS.

That is ridiculous. You have posted that as a solution at least twice now in situations where it is completely unnecessary. Are you trying to mislead people?

[+Shikaka]

Turn off the action center

[aberg]

Turn off the action center

Yes, that's the easy solution but I prefer to find an answer to why I get this notification.

[aberg]

I have discovered one thing in this mysterious error, when MSE updates its virus definitions Action Center apparently considers MSE as activated and the notification goes away.

[Wakers]

I've had this issue a couple of times with MSE - where it's running but not showing up in the system tray. This then causes action centre to think it's disabled.

I've also had an issue where it was disabled for no reason on boot. (Icon in system tray but red)

The first issue was fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling. The second was being caused by a Windows update that I removed and reinstalled. I have no idea which one it was though, sadly.

[aberg]

I had hopes for last patch tuesday but that didn't help, hopefully next does. What I not have been able to figure out is what Action Center does to activate MSE when I manually choose to do that, and what triggers the activation when the virus definitions is updated.

[+goretsky]

Hello,

You might want to try the steps outlined in this earlier message.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

[aberg]

Deleted the repository folder and reinstalled MSE but no luck.