If you’ve installed ESET’s Smarty Security, even the latest v7.0 Beta and getting “Error communicating with Kernel” Dialog on every startup, this article provides the fix. If ESET Service which configured to start on start of Computer fails to start, then you’ll get this kind of message. And Fix is very simple, you need to make sure ESET Service startup type is set to “Automatic” and its status should be showing as “started”.
Fixing ESET Smart Security 2014’s Error Communicating with Kernel Dialog
1. From run command, type “services.msc” to open Service console
2. Now select running “ESET Service”, select and double click on it to view its Properties.
3. On General tab, as said above make sure its startup type is set to “Automatic” and service status here should be reporting as “Started”. If it is showing status as “Stopped” as shown in the screenshot below click on “Start” button, to fix the problem, if Service doesn’t starts go to step 4.
2. If you’ve not seen ESET Service in Services console, you need to uninstall ESET and reinstall it.
3. If you’ve already uninstalled ESET and getting this error on startup, then you need to set ESET Service Startup type to Disabled, if you can’t do that go to step 4 for the solution.
4. If you’re not able to disable or start ESET Service then navigate to “C:Program FilesESETESET Smart Security”, using search box find em001_32.dat file and rename it to em001_32.dat.bak and restart the computer, now the service starts and you can disable service if you want now.
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