I would suggest turning off Windows Defender all together, as it doesnt actually do much in the first place besides piss you off with warnings every other day.

Just go to Start -> Run, then type in msconifg and disable it in services and startup. Then restart, and it should work.

Alright, I am extremely confused. I loaded PG2 perfectly the first time. FYI I am running Vista Home Premium 32x, I shut down my computer and when I rebooted PG2 wouldn't open. It showed that it was running in task manager, but nothing I did would open. I completely deleted it from the computer, redownlaoded it, tried running it again and it still won't open or anything but task manager says it is running. Windows Defender is off, I use Windows Live OneCare and I have it so that it allows PG2. Any ideas?

@ YZFRydn

Read back a few pages, I posted a script that fixes this temporarily!

Tried it on 32-bit VU, but didn't work for me. So far the only thing I can do is to delete and re-install PG2 every time I reboot, and after a few of those tries it works.

I'm also running 32-bit VU, sometimes it takes a few tries before it sticks! At least you don't have to keep re-installing it!

Try it a few times!

Make a batch file with the following script.

cls

tskill pg2
del /Q "C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\lists"
del /Q "C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\cache.p2b"
"C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\pg2.exe"

cls

Of course change the paths if you installed other than default.
Don't have utorrent(if using) start with windows. When you reboot just run this batch file. It helps me with loading of PG2. Then launch utorrent.

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im just going back to xp now -_-

First and foremost, thanks to the PL crew for PG2. I've been using it for years on my old XP computer and it's been great.

Installed PG2 on my Vista Home Basic, Windows Defender and Firewall off, running McAfee. Everything went smooth, had to click "check updates" to get it to start blocking. Problem is, I'm not blocking any http. I can go to any website while http is blocked, tried allowing and then blocking again with the same result. On my old XP I had to allow http to get on the web. Any suggestions?

I have gone through every single one of these processes and it seems none of them work. I click PG2 on the desktop and it won't open. I check under task manager and it shows that it is running. I am using Windows Live OneCare. Does anyone else have it?