Good day. I am constantly getting a pop-up on startup of my laptop telling me that Windows Security Center is turned off and to click on that pop-up to turn it on. It brings up a window with a button that says "Turn On." When I click it, a dialogue box pops up that says "The Security Center Service can't be started." I have antivirus and anti-spyware programs installed on my laptop, so I don't really know what to do.

Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, and Windows Update all work perfectly, but the security center will not even try to function.
I tried to manually enable it in services...it shows the status as being automatic...however, when i try to start it. I get an error message:"Access violation at address 77BA7036. Read of address 00200068".
When i look at the log for SpyBot..it says this:
10/12/2007 2:05:30 PM Allowed (based on user decision) value "Skype" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
10/12/2007 8:31:16 PM Allowed (based on user decision) value "Setup_" (new data: ""C:\Users\Neil\AppData\Local\Temp\SIT34641.tmp\setup.exe" /CmdLine C:\Users\Neil\AppData\Local\Temp\sit10226.tmp") added in System Startup user entry!
10/12/2007 8:38:28 PM Allowed (based on user decision) value "Setup_" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
10/16/2007 10:23:43 PM Allowed (based on user decision) value "Shockwave Updater" (new data: "C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\SHOCKW~1\SWHELP~1.EXE -Update -1020022 -iexplore.exe7.0") added in System Startup user entry!
10/17/2007 12:28:26 PM Allowed (based on user decision) value "Shockwave Updater" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
11/15/2007 11:14:24 AM Allowed (based on user decision) value "AVG7_Run" (new data: "C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe /RUNONCE") added in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 11:40:26 Allowed (based on user decision) value "scrnsave.exe" (new data: "") deleted in Desktop settings!
2007-11-15 11:40:32 Allowed (based on user decision) value "Search Page" (new data: "http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch") changed in Browser page!
2007-11-15 11:52:58 Allowed (based on user decision) value "load" (new data: "") deleted in NT startup!
2007-11-15 12:03:59 Allowed (based on user decision) value "Sidebar" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:04:01 Allowed (based on user decision) value "ehTray.exe" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:04:05 Allowed (based on user decision) value "msnmsgr" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:04:06 Allowed (based on user decision) value "SpybotSD TeaTimer" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:04:10 Allowed (based on user decision) value "AVG7_Run" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:05:22 Allowed (based on user decision) value "Sidebar" (new data: "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun") added in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:05:23 Allowed (based on user decision) value "ehTray.exe" (new data: "C:\Windows\ehome\ehTray.exe") added in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:05:24 Allowed (based on user decision) value "msnmsgr" (new data: ""C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background") added in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:05:25 Allowed (based on user decision) value "SpybotSD TeaTimer" (new data: "C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe") added in System Startup user entry!
2007-11-15 12:05:26 Allowed (based on user decision) value "AVG7_Run" (new data: "C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe /RUNONCE") added in System Startup user entry!
11/15/2007 12:14:24 PM Allowed (based on user decision) value "AVG7_Run" (new data: "") deleted in System Startup user entry!

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Seems to me as if the security centre is corrupted

does the SFC command work in vista?

No i'm not able to run SFC!

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