Windows Defender Update Causes Security Update Error

Wondering if it's just me, or if this is just the way this particular update works. It happens every time there's a Windows Defender update (seems to be once a month). The Defender update and the Definitions update seem to start at exactly the same time. The Defender update takes priority so the Definitions update is aborted and waits for the Defender update to be completed, and then successfully updates. I'm ok if this is the way MS has set things up, but it seems that there should be some predefined order to these things so we don't see "aborted" updates. Seeing errors listed drives some of us crazy! Well maybe just us OCD folks. We also "clear" the Event Viewer" (created by MS to specifically annoy OCD suffers) daily!

Try3 said:

Homer,

Why not just stop looking at this history and why not just stop looking at Event viewer records?

Denis

Number of reasons. Retired (as in bored) Engineer, and fooling around with Windows helps keep the brain cells active. Most times it's fun, sometimes frustrating. But, as I run Sledgehammer to keep the Windows updates at bay for a week or two until the issues surface, looking at this report helps me keep track of the Defender definition updates (the one thing Sledgehammer lets through via tasks in Task Scheduler).

Denis,

Thanks for the detailed explanations on the two items. Kind of figured as much. You'd just think that the MS folks could come up with something a bit more elegant or polished. Small item, and I would think they have many more pressing issues than fixing something that works for those of us that tend to be perfectionist.

There was a sign placed above the door leading to the engineering department at a manufacturing facility where I once worked that read, "There comes a point in the life of every product when it's time to shoot the engineers and start production".