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Windows Firewall won't Start - SOLVED!!!

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Shane:
Ok go and try to start the bits service and see what error you get. If you get a access denied error you might have corrupted com+ as well. But lets see what that says first.

If it is a corrupt com+ then you will get a error if you go to the control panel, open administrative tools and then Component Services.

When that opens expand "Component Services" on the left, then under that expand computers and then my computer.

Then under the click on Com+ Applications. Do you get a error when you click on that?

Shane

Wiloroc:
No error.  See screen shot.

 Also no error when I started COM+ service from service application. See screen shot.

And still no go on the firewall - see screen shot.

I did not see anything call "bit services" - I take it that is the COM+ service.

Shane:
Bits is the "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" And it shows that it is running.

Also your com+ looks good so that isnt the problem.

The Windows firewall does depend on WMI. So if WMI isnt working then the firewall would fail as well.f But is it WMI or something else.

The one thing about the firewall is it depends on a lot of other things, which is a bad design lol

So far everything is checking out fine. Services are there, permissions are good, no infections.

We could test is WMI works by seeing if this tool is able to do anything
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8572

Also have you ran SFC /Scannow on the system yet? And does the event viewer show anything after you try to start the firewall?

Shane

Wiloroc:
Ok,  the wmi program opened - one of the screen shots below shows result - did not know how what to do to test it.

I did run sfc /scannow -  after that and other "fixes" the firewall started then when I checked it again it was stooped and reporting the same error you have seen.

Your questions reminded me of the logs from the tweaking.com windows repair program.  So I attached what I thought would be helpful let me know what you may need other than these.

Shane:
Holy crap you have a lot of things running in the back ground lol


--- Quote ---Process Count: 134
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The more processes running the slower the system will be and the longer boot up will be as well. You should consider cleaning up what programs you have set to run at startup :-)

And sorry, on the WMI creator I should have tool you what to do. I attached a screen shot, click the 2nd drop down list and choose Win32_Process, then in the list below click on caption and then click the button on search for properties values.

If WMI is working right then the box below should fill up with the process names on the system.

Shane

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