Microsoft Security Essentials Auto Update!

I have seen a post where people were saying MSE wasn't updating automatically, So as the post is a little old i thought i would post a fix here, hope thats ok.

This little Reg/Hack does work as i have tested this myself a while back as i had a similar issue.

Ensure that wuauserv and BITS is running By going to > Control Panel > Administrator Tools > Services or else MSE won’t update!


1. Run Registry Editor (RegEdit).
2. Navigate to the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Microsoft Antimalware/Signature Updates
3. In the right pane, take ownership and grant full control permissions on a registry key, a REG_DWORD value named SignatureUpdateInterval.
4. Double click on the SignatureUpdateInterval. By default, its value is 24 in Decimal or 18 in Hexadecimal. Change its value to any number between 1 and 24 both inclusive in Decimal.

The numerical value determines how frequent and how fast in hours Microsoft Security Essentials will check for updates and update the virus and spyware definitions.

5. Restart the computer.

The Source Of This Great little Reg/Hack Is here.

Hope you found this useful!

 

Before you change anything in the registry, ALWAYS make a backup of the registry incase something goes wrong

 

Yes! very good advice from Dalo.

I forgot to mention this is my post.

 

Make a back up of Registry ... yikes! Off I go to figure out how to do that (and thanks, Dalo) and I really appreciate this tip on getting updates from Microsoft, Bugsy. I'm one of those that has my computer set to 'auto update' but it never does. While I can always do it manually, knowing when can be a tad iffy but this will really come in handy. Thanks again.

 

Mara,

This is for MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) and not the Windows OS itself