Reset And Repair Microsoft Security Essentials To Default Settings Using MSE Restore Tool

Posted by dkszone on July 27, 2010

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free real-time antivirus and anti-spyware program, which is fast becoming a security solution of choice for many Windows users. If you have somehow messed up Microsoft Security Essentials installation and like to bring it back to the default settings or first time installation state, then MSE Restore Tool could be the one for you.

This free utility repairs and restores Microsoft Security Essentials on your PC in 3 steps. First it runs the command line program to restore Microsoft Security Essentials to default settings, restarts the service, and then re-registers all the DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries).

Finally it restores all the registry entries relating to scanning, scheduling, reporting, Spy Net reporting, UX configuration, Miscellaneous Configuration, and any other settings back to the default values.

Download and extract the Zip file to your desktop(download link at bottom).

Double click on MSE Restore Tool Exe file.

When asked for UAC prompt, click Allow to run the tool.

Click on ‘Restore Microsoft Security Essentials now’ to fix all problems caused due to messed up settings. microsoft-security-essentials-restore-default-settings

In case you are using Microsoft Security Essentials Beta then you might receive an error saying ‘Microsoft Security Essentials is not found on system’. The Beta version was recently made available on a first come first serve basis, bringing forth some enhancements including a new anti-malware engine, added protection against network-based exploits, integration with Windows Firewall and so on.

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