Windows Defender or not?

Under control panel / window Defender (WD) the message is that it is OFF and click to turn it on. A click does nothing and finally it times out. Here is the interesting part, I have an icon in the taskbar for Windows Defender and it WE. Click on this icon and the full screen shot of WD rises.

What is going on?

Most of the security products disable Windows Defender.  Microsoft Security Essentials does too.

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