Windows Security Center won't turn on!

Hello
I recently tried to download something on which my McAfee jumped up to tell me that Trojans had been detected and removed. Needless to say, I deleted that has been downloaded.
Since that incident, my Microsoft Security Center was off and on again, whereas before it had worked, even with my McAfee.
Also had problems with Windows Defender, which does not at all, even though reading some other questions in the forum, I summised that he is a McAfee-Defender compatibility issue and followed the steps recommended to turn off defender.
Downloaded SUPERAntiSpyware and am currently running so far, no threat detected.
I am at a loss to know what to do now to unravel the Security Center!
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium.
Help, please!
Gianne

Hi Steve,.

Thanks for posting on the Microsoft answers Forums.

You please try and run a restore of the system to a date and a time before when you installed the program prompted by McAfee to say you had a virus.

To restore the operating system to an earlier point in time, follow these steps:

1. click on Start, type System Restore in the Search box, and then click System Restore in the programs list. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type your password or click continue.

2. in the System Restore dialog box, click choose a different restore point, and then click Next.

3. in the list of restore points, click a restore point created before you started having the problem, and then click Next.

4. click on Finish.

All the steps listed above comes from the following article: (feel free to refer to this article if you want more details.)

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/936212

Please post back and let us know if you could use Windows Media Center after you do a system restore to a date and time before the error.

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