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Boggin:
It's the actual program itself that isn't fully releasing the machine from Safe Mode where some services including Windows Defender are stopped from running.

Shane is still working on this and has asked me to ask if those affected have these registry keys, although he hasn't said what to do with them if they are present.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\SafeBoot\Option
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Option

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\SessionManager\Environment
"SAFEBOOT_OPTION"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Environment
"SAFEBOOT_OPTION"

I haven't booted any of my machines into that mode yet to see if I have them and if they have any values.

To get into the registry, go Start - type regedit and press enter when it comes up and accept the UAC.

Boggin:
Do you have any restore points back to before you ran the program you could try to see if that gets you back to normal ?

avx19877:
I think it is very important for users to run repair software in Safe Mode to avoid unnecessary errors.

Maybe run the repair program again in Safe Mode could fix it. I ran it twice in Safe Mode via Administrator account, then enable almost all settings in repair software (see attactment pictures, yes it took a very long time to fix the error). It can fix error on my Windows 10.

But I don't know it works or not with this kind of error in Windows Defender. Just try it if you want.

Boggin:
I ran the program twice to resolve another type of error it put onto my machine which then resolved it.

Are you saying that booting into Safe Mode with Networking and running the program a second time resolved the problem with WD ?

I cannot test that because I don't get a problem with my Norton Security after running the repair program so am unable to replicate it.

When I test run the program, I leave the App and Component repairs off.

When you use the program to boot into Safe Mode with Networking, rebooting after the repairs should return it to normal mode, but for some reason to be determined, it isn't doing that which results in the WD service not being able to start as it is isolated in Safe Mode.

It has nothing to do with what repairs are selected as far as I know.

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