Active Protection now shows "disabled" upon boot up

Recent change. Do not know what changed, but this always worked for me. Perhaps recent Wndows Updates?
Active Protection comes up disabled after any boot or reboot. I recheck the option to Enable, but it is unchecked after each boot. Using XP Pro, T-61.
Any ideas for the fix?
~Bob

Hi,
try to check following:
- go to System Configuration Utility <Start->run-> type msconfig> and in the services and Startup tabs, make sure, that the option for Active protection enabled <checked>: "TpShocks"
- this same should be also in registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\TpShocks value: TpShocks.exe
In case after you enable Active Protection and it's working fine, then this might be only a configuration issue, where perhaps and Antivir dissabled this applicaiton.
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