Windows 8 Still fighting the firewall.

[MikeHawthorne]

Hi

I'm still trying to get the firewall service to start.

I did all of the things listed below, including the automatic, and manual fix.....

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This firewall issue is commonly found on vista and windows 7 (64 BIT OS)
It is recommended to contact malware removal forums to remove it first and try the fix
Run the services repair tool by ESET

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Restart the PC.Firewall and critical missing services should work.

Manual Fix
Download both the registry files
Windows firewall - *Firewall
Base filtering engine - *BFE
Launch them,You should get a UAC prompt now
Click YES *& Restart your PC

Now,Press Windows+ R key and type

regedit and click ok

go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\BFE

Right click on it-permissions

Click on ADD and type

Everyone and click ok

Now Click on Everyone

Below you have permission for users

Select full control and click ok

Now,open RUN and type

services.msc and click ok

start base filtering engine service and then windows firewall service

If you still have this error
Windows could not start Windows Firewall on local Computer. See event log, if non-windows services contact vendor. Error code 5.

Download and launch this key,click YES
Shared access
give full control permission to this key similar to previous one

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SharedAccess

Right click on it -permissions

Click on Add and type

Everyone and select Full control
You should able to start firewall now
You may also be missing security center windows defender ,BITS and windows update
services

Download

Security center *-wscsvc
Windows defender - windefend
BITS * *- *BITS
Windows update *- *wuauserv
Launch them and click YES when you get a UAC prompt

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Ok I did all this I confirmed that the BFE is running.
But I still get these same error messages when I try and start the service.

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Does anyone have any idea what it's asking for, I don't have any idea what user it's looking for.

If someone needs to see something else let me know and I'll post it.

I'd ignore this but Windows 8 won't let you download anything from the store unless the firewall is running. I've seen info that states that Windows 8.1 will be available through the app store, If that's the only way, I'll have to resolve this before then.

I've found many posts from people having similar problems, the post above was supposed to be a fix, but it didn't work for me.

I went back and confirmed that all of the changes were made to the registry.

Mike

 

[betong]

when you say 'isn't as
effective and the aftermarket one' what do you mean? The creation of Everyone? And/Or the the checking of full control of others (i.e. Allapplications, admin, users etc) ?

 

[betong]

did some experimenting... You may disregard my previous post. Just adding Everyone on MpsSvc alone, clicking full control will do the job...