Accessing Settings Issue

May 24, 2018
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Hello, so i booted up my pc today and have been having issues accessing my PC settings.

http://prntscr.com/jm3ydo (Heres the Error i get)

I am the only person using the PC and have never seen this until today.

Thanks for any reply
 
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Does that happen in all settings menus or just the windows Defender Security centre?

if its just defender, it appears that is a bug with latest version of windows 10 - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3699432/windows-defender-page-administrator-limited-access-areas-app.html

Do you use any other Anti virus?

This started happening to me right after I installed the big April update. Workaround that worked for me is to go into Task Manager under Background Processes and close the Windows Defender Notification . When the icon disappears from the system tray, go to c:\Program Files\Windows Defender and open MSASCuiL.exe. Then the system tray icon returns with the green check mark.

But when I restart the computer I get the red x...

Colif

Win 11 Master
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Does that happen in all settings menus or just the windows Defender Security centre?

if its just defender, it appears that is a bug with latest version of windows 10 - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3699432/windows-defender-page-administrator-limited-access-areas-app.html

Do you use any other Anti virus?

This started happening to me right after I installed the big April update. Workaround that worked for me is to go into Task Manager under Background Processes and close the Windows Defender Notification . When the icon disappears from the system tray, go to c:\Program Files\Windows Defender and open MSASCuiL.exe. Then the system tray icon returns with the green check mark.

But when I restart the computer I get the red x again, so I have to go through this all over again each time I restart.

Please fix this, Microsoft!

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_defender-protect_scanning-windows_10/windows-defender-permision/73c9132a-6584-46e1-9a63-480ce1874817
 
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