jethrosride

Thanks. Windows management instrumentation was the missing service. Working fine now.

Yes, clean install did install the program, which immediately produced the unable to start-- unable to connect the service error. mb-check-results.zip file created after "clean" install is below. mb-check-results.zip

mb-clean-results.txt

I'm unable to run Malwarebytes version 3 without error unable to start--unable to connect the service. mb-check-results.zip