You gave me an idea Denis so I looked everywhere with "Everything", (pun intended), and opened every single file I could through the whole machine but found zilch. Did the DISM, chkdsk and SFC thing...

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Thanks M8, I think you are dead right. Doing something I know nothing about is not the best thing to do.

Thanks to all for your help but this is all too much for an old fart like me. I'm gonna leave well enough alone and ignore any SFC glitches that show their ugly heads. Closing it down. Thanks again...

I've never done a bios update before. Which of these do I hit and anything else I have to do first?

I'm in over my head now :( Am I to run this in command prompt?
diskpart
sel disk 0
sel par 1
set id=ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000000
exit

What will...

Thanks and yes I was online Denis and have posted results prior

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Yep, found it the windows pane. Thanks mike

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Thanks Mike. I have Revo installed and if I had uninstalled onedrive previously I would have used it if it was listed there. I just reinstalled onedrive but strangely it is not showing in Revo. ...

Txs Bree, used the script supplied by Pentagon on page 2 of the forum link you supplied and KB5034441 installed OK.
One problem solved :-)

I had uninstalled avast previously using the avast tool and deleted any files found in the "Everything" program but following your advice I just ran it again in safe mode. One avast folder was found...

Tune up doc here

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Thanks to all you guys for the help. I ran the DISM and it came up "system restored", then ran SFC but got the same error message so ran DISM again, same result- "system restored", ran sfc three...

Hi all,

I just had a problem with defender not starting and through help I got from the "AntiVirus, Firewall and Security" forum cured it.
I thought it best to do an SFC check to see if any...

Making it tough aye?

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Thanks M8 that did the trick, all working ok now.

FreeBooter, should I also run the batch script or not necessary?

I have everything installed and did just that and still nothing. I'll try to reinstall defender

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Txs Ghot but it is stuck on this screen

Also a restore would only...

Hi all,
I just used the Avast tool to uninstall Avast free and can't get windows defender to start. On the security page shown here I don't have any option to start it. Any help?
TIA,
Harry

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