Full version, services won't start

[taser8]

I've got the full paid version of Spybot, but the services won't start. Trying to start them in the Settings panel, they are all greyed out. If I open with Admin privileges, I get an error message.
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Any advice? No other antivirus software installed beyond Windows Security.

[Zenobia]

drghughes noticed that one of the services didn't start immediately after installing Spybot 2.8 until after they had rebooted their computer:
https://forums.spybot.info/showthrea...l=1#post484577
If you haven't rebooted your computer since installing, you could give it a try and see if the services start up afterwards. It might be something similar happening with yours.

[taser8]

Boy, I wish it were that. I've tried multiple things and rebooted a bunch of times.

drghughes noticed that one of the services didn't start immediately after installing Spybot 2.8 until after they had rebooted their computer:
https://forums.spybot.info/showthrea...l=1#post484577
If you haven't rebooted your computer since installing, you could give it a try and see if the services start up afterwards. It might be something similar happening with yours.

[Zenobia]

Sorry to hear that. You could open a support ticket here:
https://www.safer-networking.org/support/#contactform
Also, my apologies on the late reply. I got a bit busy, and forgot to check this thread for replies.

[drghughes]

Just in case you haven't come across https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/...suddenly-stops

Given that it looks like you (sensibly, in my view) normally use a standard user account, that solution may work, especially since in my experience Spybot doesn't seem to cope well with that way of operating.