How can I fix Windows Defender error code in Windows 8.1?

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Windows Defender is giving me an error code 0x80073b01 and it will not start. I am not sure if this is caused by the OS language change that I did recently but I did a scan for virsuses with Norton 360 and found none. I cannot get Windows Defender offline to work either. Windows will start to load from a USB stick, but never completes.

windows-8.1
boot
windows-defender
asked on Super User Apr 7, 2014 by user313689

1 Answer

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The Error code means ERROR_MUI_FILE_NOT_LOADED :

C:\Users\André>err 0x80073b01
# as an HRESULT: Severity: FAILURE (1), FACILITY_WIN32 (0x7), Code 0x3b01
# for hex 0x3b01 / decimal 15105
  ERROR_MUI_FILE_NOT_LOADED                                      winerror.h
# The resource loader cache doesn't have loaded MUI entry.
# 1 matches found for "0x80073b01"

Open a command prompt as admin and run this DISM command to detect and repair missing Windows files:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
answered on Super User Apr 7, 2014 by magicandre1981 • edited Mar 20, 2017 by Community

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