Windows 10: WINDOWS DEFENDER SERVICES MISSING From The SERVICES APP

This problem occurs in W10 v2004 in its latest build, and probably the previous one as well.

The Services, while missing in the "Services" screen, cause no problem for your PC. Because they

are not really missing.


The problem that they will cause, is to misinform someone, who thinks that they need to find them.

For whatever reason. Troubleshooting, or anything else..


The Windows Defender Services that fail to display areWindows Defender Antivirus Service, and

Windows Defender Antivirus Network Inspection Service. WinDefend and WdNisSvc.


The services are missing in both, the Services App and Msconfig.





You can verify their presence, by observing the Task Manager.





The purpose for this discussion is to prevent someone from going down the primrose path!


Good luck, Glen

:)

 

Windows Defender service is missing from Services

Good day all,

When I try to turn on Windows Defender on my PC I get the error message 'The settings for Windows Defender Antivirus aren't available. The app has been uninstalled from the server'. I saw a solution on this platform to start the Windows Defender Service
in Services but the issue is that it is missing. Please what do I do to resolve this and turn it on.

Thank you.

 

Securing Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 services HOW TO

I will try changing their settings sometime, the one thing I've noticed about this guide is that it doesn't list the Windows services that NEED to be left as local system, so some people might not be too sure what they're doing and worry about any that aren't listed. Just a suggestion that you might want to include in any future revisions. *Smile

The non-default ones I have that you have not listed are:

.Net Runtime Optimization Service v2.0.50727_X86
Ati HotKey Poller
ATI Smart
AVG E-mail Scanner
AVG7 Alert Manager Server
AVG7 Update Service
BlueSoleil Hid Service
Bluetooth Support Service
ewido anti-spyware 4.0 guard
iPod Service
Messenger Sharing USN Journal Reader Service
Service Layer
Windows Defender Service

The problem is that the only ones of these I actually use are The AVG and Windows Defender services and occasionally the "Service Layer" service (related to Nokia PC Suite) and the "Messenger Sharing USN Journal Reader Service" (related to WindowsLive Messenger). Anyway, I'll see how much I can secure those and post back how I get on. I'll try to test it sometime this week just I'm a bit waring of changing the AVG settings because the only way to test if it was still working would be for a virus to be detected... and I' rather I didn't get viruses!

 

Windows Defender Service missing.

Hi.
The opencl.dll error is nothing - don't worry about it.

For the DISM repair, suggest you download the W10 ISO from MSTechBench and point to it with the DISM command as shown in the tut: