"William Beard" <wabeard6596@yahoo.com> wrote
>I discovered that my Defender was turned off. When I turned it on, it
>needed any update. Upon trying to update the same error code 0x80240029
>was displayed. I opened IE as an administrator and went to
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931099, but there is no upgrade linkage
>there. You can't install the Defender anew because it is part of Vista.
>So, now I have a crippled Defender. Is there a doctor in the house? My
>Defender is version 1.1.1505.0.

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Error message when you try to update Windows Defender on a Windows
Vista-based computer: "Error found: Code 0x80240029"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934562/en-us

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]