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Base Filtering Engine cannot enable (Error 5); known remedies fail.
If I attempt to run the Base Filtering Engine, whether through an elevated command line or through services.msc run as an administrator, I receive the error:This error has been encountered many years ago on this forum: my command prompt results are identical to those given there, except that I read HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3794051443-449633142-1189025595-1001 for HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-216155784-1160685422-2861209106-1000, and likewise for HKEY_USERS ... -1000_Classes. (My research suggests this is probably just a unique identifier that varies normally for every computer.) I have provided my event logs, prepared as discussed there, for review. (Discord was necessary as the compressed file exceeded the four-megabyte limit.) Other methods proposed on this and Microsoft's official forum likewise fail. I cannot modify the registry as suggested here to grant Everyone full control: attempting yields the following error on selecting OK or even Apply:Windows could not start the Base Filtering Engine service on Local Computer.
Error 5: Access is denied.Creating and importing the manual registry repair given here and recommended elsewhere on this forum reads the following error on attempting to merge:Unable to save permission changes on BFE.
Access is denied.Disabling Avast temporarily to enable the BFE as an administrator is ineffective. Roundabout methods, as accessing the hidden Administrator account, produce identical results to using my normal account, which is Owner and should, according to the Registry's permission, give me full control. More exotic methods as a batch file disabling and re-enabling network-related services, also from the Microsoft forum, also accomplished nothing. Scans by Avast and Malwarebytes indicate that there is no malware involved.Cannot import C:\Users\Owner\Documents\Repair.reg: Not all data written successfully to the registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes.
Because my attempts at research, and the various solutions proposed there, have come to nought, I would like to request advice from you. As I currently travel, my responses may be delayed, but I would be grateful for any advice that you can give in restoring the BFE, and with its, Windows' built-in firewall. Please let me know what you would suggest next!