Moose_and_squirrel

As I said, I did do that and problem not solved. Thanks for the advice, but its pretty clear to me from the boatload of problems reported just about everywhere in the past 5 days that its related to the microsoft update from last week. That's the only change to my system in the past week. I do have every single bit of windows protection turned on. My guess is its something involving those settings. Either Microsoft will fix it or Malwarebytes will. In the meanwhile, its just a few extra steps to get what I want.

I screwed up when I ran the repair tool above and it uninstalled and reinstalled it during that run through, before I generated the logs. When I looked around after troubleshooting it myself, I see hundreds of reports involving malwarebytes and false positives since this past windows patch tuesday. That its affecting windows 10 AND 11 tells me that microsoft changed something up here.

Keeps saying my wording is s-p-a-m. Grr. mbst-grab-results.zip

Same problem here with Windows 11 and the most recent updates from this past tuesday. Opening directly from the control panel works fine. Right clicking on Start and then picking device manager gets this error 100% of the time. Wish I'd seen others having it before spending the morning looking for what infected my machine. To reproduce, right click on the Windows Start icon, select 'device manager'. Boom.