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firewall won't start
I do have the free version of Avira antivir installed.
"GTS" wrote: Have you ever had a 3rd party firewall or security suite installed on this computer? -- "GTS" x wrote in message ... Try running this command in an elevated command prompt netsh winsock reset Reboot and then try enabling the firewall. This recently worked for me in servicing a customers machine with the same problem. -- "Johan" wrote in message ... Hi, My firewall gives me this error message when i try to set it on. "Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall service." I have just installed SP1 but the problem started before that. |
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firewall won't start
That shouldn't cause any problem. Does the event log have any useful
information? Also, here's one article (that may or may not apply to your issue). http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943996/en-us -- "Johan" wrote in message ... I do have the free version of Avira antivir installed. "GTS" wrote: Have you ever had a 3rd party firewall or security suite installed on this computer? -- "GTS" x wrote in message ... Try running this command in an elevated command prompt netsh winsock reset Reboot and then try enabling the firewall. This recently worked for me in servicing a customers machine with the same problem. -- "Johan" wrote in message ... Hi, My firewall gives me this error message when i try to set it on. "Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall service." I have just installed SP1 but the problem started before that. |
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firewall won't start
"Johan" wrote in message ... Hi, My firewall gives me this error message when i try to set it on. "Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall service." I have just installed SP1 but the problem started before that. Try to delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ WindowsFirewall Cheers |
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firewall won't start
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