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Hi, I receive this error code when i try to open Windows Defender and it says: An error as occurred, in the program during initialization. If this problem continues, please contact your system administrator. Error code 0x80073afc. And in the Action Center it says that Windows Defender is turned off.
Please help!
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Has a Norton application or a McAfee application EVER been installed on the computer since you bought it?
Did a Norton free-trial or a McAfee free-trial [pick one] come preinstalled on the computer when you bought it? (Doesn't matter if you never used or Activated it.)
If Defender's not working properly, how will you know if the Bitdefender application is installed & working properly?
If you purchased the PC in April, support should be from HP. Have you contacted them?
-steve
How do you turn window defender on any help with this will be most helpful thank you.
Bought my computer May of 2013.
Hello and thank you for your response in trying to help me, yes I had alreaday previously completed what you suggested at an earlier date way back in April, for some reason around the25-26 of June is when I noticed that defender wasn't running properly so tried cut onthen eerror, then I noticed it had an update thru Microsoft, so after attempting command prompts, trying 2 diff restores nearly 3 weeks apart , and everything else I could find I installed Bitdefender and it has put 14 items / threats in quarantine and then I deleted them, so Just wanted to say thanks again
