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After the Download of Windows Defender I cannot install the product?

Having issues installing Windows Defender on my XP machine. I will get 3/4 of the way into the install and its crashes saying i don't have enough privileges, however i am the admin????

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Try runng the following AV / Malware utilities as I have seen malware change the registry to prohibit the installation of Windows defender:

Malware bytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
HijackThis - http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

If everything is clean then try:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin&tid=7c7a63b7-b432-42d3-ae79-0a82f188e102&cat=en_US_033e60ca-532f-4808-b36d-063ba4daafa5&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=&p=1

Do you have any other security products installed?
Are you on SP3?
That last post should have read how about security essentials?
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Hi Friend,

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Windows Defender
2. Run "MSASCui.exe"
3. You will see a window saying that Windows Defender is not running. (Sorry, I don't remember the exact wording)
4. Click on the part at the end of the message that looks like a link and says something like "start Windows Defender"

That should do it.