Toggling it off and then on in Settings (clicked from Defender) convinced the program that it's on. But apparently each time my computer reboots I have to do it again. I guess this isn't a terrible...

The program interface shows it's off, however to the left in my control panel snapshot, as highlighted, it shows everything is on. In addition:

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So, the info in my posts so far rule out...

Thank you. I did read that post, and most of it seems irrelevant because every setting except for the program itself tells me Real Time Protection is already on (as shown in the picture in my above...

I'm having a very similar problem and have read through the suggestions. As far as I know the only malware program I have in addition to Defender is Malwarebytes, which I have to manually activate...