Windows 10: Windows Security file location

Hello there! I have a version of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 with a custom community handled server installed on windows 10, and one of the settings options lets you choose a specific app to scan .exe files for viruses. I want to use windows defender / windows security, but I don't know where it is located in the systems files. Can you help me out by letting me know where Windows Defender's .exe file is located in the system? Thanks a bunch!

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Location service is greyed out

Hi Shahriar,

Thank you for responding.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused for you, I suggest you to try the below troubleshooting steps and check If it helps.

Step 1: Steps to turn on the Location settings.

• Login as an administrator.
• Press Windows key, type Location settings and select
  Change location settings.
• Check whether Location for this device is On by clicking on
  Change.
• Also turn on Location as well.

Step 2: And as you are unable to set the service Geolocation service to automatic, I suggest you to run SFC scan and check.

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

Follow the below steps:

• 
  Right click on the Start button, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin).
  
• 
  Type “sfc /scannow” without the quotes and hit
  Enter.
  
• 
  After the scan, restart the computer and check for the issue.
  

Try to set the service to automatic by following the steps provided in the above post by Praveen Venugopal.

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of the issue, we will be happy to help you.

 

Network security questions

To block websites with the host file, you need to do the following:

In windows 7, your host file is located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc .
Open the file "hosts" (no extention) with any editor I like notepad2.

Then download or copy a good host file list. Ive have very good luck with this file. Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much)

Paste the contents of that web page into your host file. Save it. Remember there is no extention to the file.

Restart your PC and your all done.


**EDIT I've even gone a step further to increase the speed of my browsing so that the webpage doesnt send multiple requests looking for the blocked address. I use a mini webserver on my HTPC called iWebserver located at http://www.ashleybrown.co.uk/iweb/ .

In the Hosts file I've renamed all the 127.0.0.1 addresses to point to the IP of my internal webserver. This causes the website you are on to actually get a responce from your server but it gets a blank page instead of no responce. I've noticed my websurfing speeds increase dramatically this way.


Hope this helps.
Jeff

 

How do I locate/ extract the imagex.exe file?


To try and keep a long story as short as possible:

I'm trying to install Win 10 on an external SSD, which I can boot on my MacBook Pro.

To complete the installation I have downloaded:
- install.esd and converted it to install.wim
- Windows 10 Pro ISO from Microsoft
- Boot Camp drivers from Apple

The final piece of the puzzle is to complete this step:

• Windows AIK (free) running on your Virtual Machine or on your PC, or just the imagex.exe file (the rest of the Windows AIK package is not needed)
  • Download imagex.exe
  • Download Windows AIK extract imagex.exe (this download and installation is not required if you have already downloaded imagex.exe)

This is to complete this final stage of the installation:

Step 3: Deploy the Windows installation image

1. Still using the command prompt in admin mode (you didn't close it, did you? *Wink ), locate the imagex.exe file mentioned in the "What you'll need" section and access its folder. In our example, we have put this file in C:\imagex\imagex.exe
2. Your Windows installation ISO has probably several installation options in it. So in order to identify the right one, type in the following:imagex.exe /info C:\wim\install.wim
3. Now identify the INDEX number of the installation that you wish to deploy. You will use it in the next step.
4. Type the following and hit enter. Replace 1 with the INDEX you identified in the previous step. Also remember to replace o: with the letter you have chosen in the previous step:imagex.exe /apply C:\wim\install.wim 1 o:
   This will take some time. The Windows installation image is being deployed to your external drive
5. Once done, type the following to create the boot section (remember to replace o: and b: with the letters you've chosen in the previous step):\windows\system32\bcdboot o:\windows /f ALL /s b:
   
   
   I'm doing this on a Toshiba Laptop running Windows 7.
   I've also purchased a genuine license for Windows 10 Pro.
   
   Any help greatly appreciated.
   
   Regards,