Error codes 0x80070422 from Windows Defender???
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From: skaizun on 1 Jul 2010 12:39 FWIW, I'm a computer programmer with over 30 years of experience as a software engineer, and over a decade of a sideline business installing and fixing computers for home and small businesses. For the record, I can't believe that someone in this thread actually suggested reformatting the hard drive. People like that should be kicked out of websites, like this one, for either naively giving bad advice or purposely acting like a trollish hacker/spammer/etc. Now, onto the problem at hand: I had the same "x80070422" -(which, for those not in the "know" is actually a hexadecimal number, which, IMHO, should never be displayed to users; instead, a simple English line or link should be given)- problem with Defender on my Vista machine, though only well after a year since I bought the computer, and only a month since its last update -(I don't believe in wasting computer processing time and power by updating every nanosecond). -I tried the Help's "Repair.bat" suggestion to no avail -(surprise, surprise!). -Before rebooting, I decided to see if there was a virus on my system, so I ran a quick anti-virus scan on my drives, then ran Defender. After Defender completed, and while the A/V was still running, I tried to update Defender, and, lo and behold, it worked! My guess is that there's a timing glitch or physical lock, either or both of which need to be cleared, simply by running Defender, normally. I know it has been a long time since the problem was first entered into this forum, and, hopefully, the person who initiated it has solved it on his/her own, but I also hope this will help anyone who searches the net with the same problem, as I had. -- skaizun Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
From: MowGreen on 1 Jul 2010 13:33 80070422 ERROR_SERVICE_DISABLED The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " Before rebooting, I decided to see if there was a virus on my system, so I ran a quick anti-virus scan on my drives, then ran Defender. After Defender completed, and while the A/V was still running, I tried to update Defender, and, lo and behold, it worked! My guess is that there's a timing glitch or physical lock, either or both of which need to be cleared, simply by running Defender, normally. " Running Defender as in scanning with it or attempting to update it from within it's GUI ? Perhaps the installed AV was locking a Service that Defender needs to update it's definitions because the AV contains an antispyware component ? And yes, showing Users hexadecimal messages is rather useless without presenting methods and/or links for resolving said messages. MowGreen ================ *-343-* FDNY Never Forgotten ================ banthecheck.com "Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked skaizun wrote: > FWIW, I'm a computer programmer with over 30 years of experience as a > software engineer, and over a decade of a sideline business installing > and fixing computers for home and small businesses. > > For the record, I can't believe that someone in this thread actually > suggested reformatting the hard drive. People like that should be kicked > out of websites, like this one, for either naively giving bad advice or > purposely acting like a trollish hacker/spammer/etc. > > Now, onto the problem at hand: I had the same "x80070422" -(which, for > those not in the "know" is actually a hexadecimal number, which, IMHO, > should never be displayed to users; instead, a simple English line or > link should be given)- problem with Defender on my Vista machine, though > only well after a year since I bought the computer, and only a month > since its last update -(I don't believe in wasting computer processing > time and power by updating every nanosecond). -I tried the Help's > "Repair.bat" suggestion to no avail -(surprise, surprise!). -Before > rebooting, I decided to see if there was a virus on my system, so I ran > a quick anti-virus scan on my drives, then ran Defender. After Defender > completed, and while the A/V was still running, I tried to update > Defender, and, lo and behold, it worked! My guess is that there's a > timing glitch or physical lock, either or both of which need to be > cleared, simply by running Defender, normally. > > I know it has been a long time since the problem was first entered into > this forum, and, hopefully, the person who initiated it has solved it on > his/her own, but I also hope this will help anyone who searches the net > with the same problem, as I had. > >
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 1 Jul 2010 17:10
skaizun wrote: > FWIW, I'm a computer programmer with over 30 years of experience as a > software engineer... You know you're up against a brick wall whenever you read that in a newsgroup or forum! One would think that someone with such experience would know to: 1. Begin one's own, new thread about one's problem & computer instead of hijacking someone else's thread; and... 2. State one's full Windows version in one's post. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Error message when you try to install updates by using the Windows Update Web site or the Microsoft Update Web site: "0x80070422" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958043 How do I reset Windows Update components? [Ignore the APPLIES TO section if Win7; Access KB971058 via Internet Explorer (32-bit) only; Run the Fix It in DEFAULT and AGGRESSIVE modes, then reboot] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058 |