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Win7 Firewall Service not starting, blocking ALL incoming connections
Hi guys this issue is doing my head in.
This happened to me before a few weeks ago, I reinstalled and after about a week the problem is back.
The Issue: After a restart of the computer the firewall will NOT turn on, in the control panel it tells me to reset to default settings (1 Button) upon clicking does nothing.
In services.msc all other required services are running (Base filter etc.) the windows firewall is not running.
I attempt to manually start it and an error message pops up "Windows could not start the Windows Firewall on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 5."
So I did some research and microsoft told me it was an error with permissions, so I tried their fix it and other manual fixes with no luck what so ever.
What I think may of caused this, the BIOS clock is set correctly but on a fresh windows install it thought the time/date was wrong. It was stuck in 2008. I manually changed this, restarted fine and nothing went wrong for 2 weeks.
I'm pulling my hair out here guys, any solutions?
Cheers