The Security Centre service can't be started

[James Exasperated]

Recently, my norton antivirus 2007 cannot load its virus definition.
Therefore, I reinstalled the software without any improvement. Everytime I
turn on my computer, I will receive Windows Security Alert that my security
centre service is turned off. In the security centre, I tried to turn on the
security centre service. Everytime I tried to do that, a window will appear
that reads "The Security Centre Service can't be started". Please help. I am
at this problem for more than a week.

[brink]

Hi James,

If your trying to turn on Security Center from Control Panel > Security
Center, then it will not work unless the Service is set for Started and
Automatic.

Go to this link and scroll down a bit and do this section:
Disable Security Center:
It will show you how to enable the Service to.


http://tinyurl.com/3dnvhr

This should help,

[Sigil]

I have *exactly* the same problem and am trying it terribly frustrating. I
tried to follow the instructions noted in Brink's reply - but I dont have the
"Change the way Security Center Alerts me" option even showing up??

Now Im concerned that neither Norton nor the security center is protecting
me adequadetly.

Any help *greatly* appreciated.

[brink]

Hi Sigil,

Scroll down a bit further at that site and do the section:
::DISABLE SECURITY CENTER:::
*::::*
Except, do START and AUTOMATIC instead.

[Chadillac]

Yes, this does work. I was having the same problem. I went through the
steps in the link that brink first gave and the security center turned on.

[ronnycopeh]

I don't need to start another thread but I have searched everywhere for a solution to starting the security center, its on automatic but won't start and I get this message

"windows could not start the security center service on local computer"
Error 1083: The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service