Cubey Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Recently windows defender stop working and i get this error code "0x80070424" the specified service does not exits as a service.I checked services and its not listed there ether.This computer recently had McAfee on it but the subscription expired a long time ago and was not very useful so i deleted it.Windows defender stopped working before i uninstalled McAfee.I would like to know how to restart windows defender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Krause Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Recently windows defender stop working and i get this error code "0x80070424" the specified service does not exits as a service.I checked services and its not listed there ether.This computer recently had McAfee on it but the subscription expired a long time ago and was not very useful so i deleted it.Windows defender stopped working before i uninstalled McAfee.I would like to know how to restart windows defender. Do you get that error message each time you reboot or did you only get it once? McAfee doesn't have anything to do with this BTW so don't worry about McAfee. Have you installed another AV Application yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubey Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Recently windows defender stop working and i get this error code "0x80070424" the specified service does not exits as a service.I checked services and its not listed there ether.This computer recently had McAfee on it but the subscription expired a long time ago and was not very useful so i deleted it.Windows defender stopped working before i uninstalled McAfee.I would like to know how to restart windows defender. no i only get message when i try to turn on windows defender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beyond_Life Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Did you try this: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/windows-defender-0x80070424-error/473aaa3e-1a5c-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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