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I get a message that "Windows is blocking a Startup Program". Blink will not start, and is listed as the Blocked Program.
Blink loaded fine at boot the first few times, but now after several days away when I try and boot I get this message. I was unable to capture a screen snip of that as it dissappears within a few secongs, and the pop-up from the taskbar dissapears as soon as I try to open the snipping tool, but it displays an option line to run the Blocked Program. I then click on the only blocked program that appears to the right, that being Blink. The window dissapears, but Blink never seems to appear in the "Task Manager" as a running process.
I then have to manually open Blink from my Start Menu in order to get it operating. It would be easy to think that you had in fact started Blink when you clicked on the option to run the blocked program, and then be running naked without Blink protection. I did capture some screen shots but can find no way to attach them to this post, so if someone needs them to analyze the problem let me know and I will email them directly to you. The help screen on the Blocked Program window says I will have to repeat the process each time I start the blocked program, no option I can find to allow it in the future. It seems to be Windows Defender doing the blocking, Windows Defender having become active after I uninstalled Windows Live 1-Care (Hated it, but just running free trial version until Blink 64K Vista came out).
Am thinking I will probably want to disable Windows Defender somehow, as I'm pretty sure Blink covers all the functions Windows Defender does.
It does show that it is "Windows Defender" blocking Blink, and showing it as "Classification: Not yet Classified". I find no option to tell Windows Defender to allow Blink in the future. Perhaps this will cure itself on the next start as Windows Defender just downloaded new definitions. Any advice before I try and figure out how to disable Windows Defender?
Addendum: Windows Defender blocked Blink on the next boot, so they haven't yet fixed the definitions or the Classification of this program. When I clicked the link to open the blocked program, I got the message "An invalid command line parameter was specified". That is probably a Windows Defender problem, but it forces me to then go and start Blink from my Start Menu in order to have Blink running and protecting the computer.