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Troubleshooters, Essentials, Update, Defender not working
Good People
- I've just made a clean install of Win7 Professional (to be clear - registered and 100% Genuine; MSDN AA/DreamSpark Premium program at my University).
- Few programs already installed (I could probably make a precise list)
- Drivers installed from the DVD attached to my Asus (but manually, due to ASSETUP.exe not supporting my OS)
The problem is that some Microsoft features/programs/whatever won't work. From my preliminary recognition these are:
- Troubleshooters - "an error occurred while troubleshooting: a problem is preventing the troubleshooter from starting" (no matter what I'm troubleshooting)
- Windows Essentials - won't install - I've tried only Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. The installation starts, but after a while it says that it can't be installed
- Windows Update - "Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because service is not running. You may need to restart your computer" (but I've done that several times, I've also checked in Services - status says "Started" and restarting it doesn't help)
- Windows Defender - it won't start neither through Control Panel>Windows Defender nor through Services
- I've also find out, that my clock won't synchronize with time.windows.com (I've checked it about 10 times in 10 different moments and only once it synchronized succesfully, every other time it's "an error occurred..."
I thought it was ZoneAlarm's fault (list of blocked programs transferred from another computer) so I've uninstalled it and installed Comodo instead (firewall - Safe Mode; HIPS - disabled; Auto-sandbox - Untrusted; antivirus - Stateful). Nothing has changed.
Pleas help! I've been looking for answer for days and found nothing.