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Windows Defender
Hi all.
I've never used Windows Defender until it came on this new Windows 7 computer. It never really appears to be doing anything unless I manually open it.
I am of the impression that the program should be running in the system tray but it's not there.
Anyhow, I did a Windows update check and there was an update for definitions for this program. Subsequently, I didn't download the update and then opened up Defender to do the update through the program itself since I was already wondering about it's functional state.
When I checked for a definitions update through the program it returned an error found notification that said "error found: 0x80240016. An unexpected problem occured while checking for updates.For information on installing or troubleshooting ubdates see Help and support."
So basically, I checked the link to help and support and it said that the program is updated through Windows update. That's fine but shouldn't I be able to update the thing through it's own interface? I mean the function is there, in the program but it just returns that error.
I'm still wondering why Windows defender doesn't show up at statup in the tray though. How do I know it's actually doing anything?
For now, I did the definitions update through windows update but I'm still wondering why the program isn't in the tray at startup and whether or not it's actually running real time protection.