Solved Unable to start Windows Firewall

[DarrienAdams]

Balon,
I watch your utube, great job It's almost working.

I have tried your fix. the windows firewall services shows up again, but i cant start the services says "Error 1068: The dependency services or group failed to start".

I also did the following from an old post you said to do:
Click Start, Run and type Services.msc
Right-click the Network Connections entry
Set its Startup type to Manual
Click Start to start the service
Right-click Windows Management Instrumentation
Set its Startup type to Automatic
Click Start to start the service.
Then start the BFE service first then the Windows Firewall service.



It still will not start. 1068 error
Now WHAT?

 

[Balon]

Balon,
I watch your utube, great job It's almost working.

I have tried your fix. the windows firewall services shows up again, but i cant start the services says "Error 1068: The dependency services or group failed to start".

I also did the following from an old post you said to do:
Click Start, Run and type Services.msc
Right-click the Network Connections entry
Set its Startup type to Manual
Click Start to start the service
Right-click Windows Management Instrumentation
Set its Startup type to Automatic
Click Start to start the service.
Then start the BFE service first then the Windows Firewall service. Now tell me if you are able to access your firewall?



Now WHAT?

No clue man, Ive yet to find a fix to that error code, try windows fixit at that point but ill keep trying to figure it out

 

[jtharvey]

Balon: Thank you for a clear, concise and working solution. I now have a working firewall. Glad I came across this forum -who wants to have to go through a system restore and all it could entail to get back to the status quo?!

Very grateful.

 

[csidegirl8992]

Balon I also thank your great solution. This problem resulted from a Win 7 Antispyware 2012 infection on my son's laptop. Malwarebytes got rid of the virus (I thought), but unfortunately it affected the Windows Firewall and BFE. Weirdly, McAfee gave me the warning that it's firewall was turned off also. Once I got Windows Firewall and BFE working, McAfee went back to normal. Like everyone else, I did not want to do a system restore or reload Windows, ugh.

Again, thank you very much!

 

[EBC]

Hello,

I've tried everything posted and nothing works.

1. Attached is the DDS
2. When I run Base Filtering Engine - Error 5: Access is Denied.
3. When I run Windows Firewall Service - Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

 

[DarrienAdams]

This all fail for me

I followed all the different things to get everything to work and no luck. 2 weeks of trying, Final straw that broke my back was the1068 error. Buy a external hard drive, copy your doc's, reload windows 7 from your restore backup copy from your pc and the reload all the other software.

 

[Balon]

Hello,

I've tried everything posted and nothing works.

1. Attached is the DDS
2. When I run Base Filtering Engine - Error 5: Access is Denied.
3. When I run Windows Firewall Service - Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

I will be working on correcting this issue! Please standby for further assistance! Please for the mean time, use Comodo or some other firewall to protect your system!

 

[delirium]

post 13

extremely well executed repair help by Balon, well done and I know a lot of us out here appreciate that,,

for those who are still having issues I would suggest one of the following:

a. it's possible you have not removed the offending malware, as more than one type may be the issue and multiple types may be present, if you aren't sure you may want to restart the removal process before proceeding as you will be wasting your time.

b. it you aren't comfortable w/ the backup(export) and import of registry entries and the modifications, try getting help from a more technically competent friend or even consider paying for pro support, it's no sin to admit you are in over your head.

 

[tombombodil]

Hi there, my name is Balon and I am pretty sure I have the way to fix your problem.

IT IS SUGGESTED YOU BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE PROCEEDING

Backing Up Your Registry

1. Go Here and download ERUNT
   (ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT) is a free program that allows you to keep a complete backup of your registry and restore it when needed.)
2. Install ERUNT by following the prompts
   (use the default install settings but say no to the portion that asks you to add ERUNT to the start-up folder, if you like you can enable this option later)
3. Start ERUNT
   (either by double clicking on the desktop icon or choosing to start the program at the end of the setup)
4. Choose a location for the backup
   (the default location is C:\WINDOWS\ERDNT which is acceptable).
5. Make sure that at least the first two check boxes are ticked
6. Press OK
7. Press YES to create the folder.

Registry Modifications



Download both the registry files

bfe.reg

firewall.reg

Launch and import them to registry

Restart your PC

Now,open RUN 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

For further assistance contact me here, I will be checking this thread every few hours, this worked for me and it should work for you too.

You good sir, are the man! Instantly fixed all my issues with no hiccups. Thanks for your expertise

 

[dayron]

Balon's solution wokred without a hitch.

I backed up the registry, i ran the reg files and rebooted. I set the reg permissions. I started the services. Everything worked!

I saw someone else had the firewall issue after Win 7 Antispyware 2012. I had the same thing happen. Once I got it removed this eve ESET Nod32 reported it could not perform analysis on http or pop3 services. For the record this is the first miss I've seen ESET experience since I'd used it (since 2009). So I was surprised when I saw the Win 7 Antispyware 2012 window pop up. Anyway I Googled Eset's warning message and saw forums discussing it being related to Windows Firewall issues. So I went to see if the firewall was enabled and saw...it wasn't there at all. Much Googling lead me here and Balon's fix brought me home.

Thanks again.

 

[Paprman]

Same problem

Thanks! I had the same problem. My firewall services was missing. Really didn't want to do a clean install. This registry procedure worked for me. Without my firewall working I was able to share my printer.
Thanks again tombombodil.

 

[Tysonb]

Thank you!!

Hey, Your the man. I've been search all over the net for this fix. And your the first one that fixed it completely.
Thanks

Hi there, my name is Balon and I am pretty sure I have the way to fix your problem.

IT IS SUGGESTED YOU BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE PROCEEDING

Backing Up Your Registry

1. Go Here and download ERUNT
   (ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT) is a free program that allows you to keep a complete backup of your registry and restore it when needed.)
2. Install ERUNT by following the prompts
   (use the default install settings but say no to the portion that asks you to add ERUNT to the start-up folder, if you like you can enable this option later)
3. Start ERUNT
   (either by double clicking on the desktop icon or choosing to start the program at the end of the setup)
4. Choose a location for the backup
   (the default location is C:\WINDOWS\ERDNT which is acceptable).
5. Make sure that at least the first two check boxes are ticked
6. Press OK
7. Press YES to create the folder.

Registry Modifications



Download both the registry files

bfe.reg

firewall.reg

Launch and import them to registry

Restart your PC

Now,open RUN 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

For further assistance contact me here, I will be checking this thread every few hours, this worked for me and it should work for you too.

 

[rpdesign]

thank you thankyou thankyou

I had to re-read your solution to find that i had to do some extra steps to enable my firewall. anyhow had the nasty win 7 home 2012 antivirus virus being a techie i fixed it manually boot in safe mode etc...only to find out it left extra damage. thankyou thankyou thankyou!

 

[ijmorales]

Just wanted to say thanks to Balon who I believe posted the fix to this problem.
I had the same virus and had been searching for a fix to restore missing MS Firewall service. I followed the procedure outlined in this chain and it worked perfectly the first time.
Thanks a bunch for sharing!!

 

[Lashark]

Balon - Thank you so much!!! It worked perfectly - you are brilliant and I appreciate it more than I can say.

 

[Komponist]

Just registered to join in the chorus of thanks to Balon -- this was messing up my McAfee Firewall, and neither McAfee nor Microsoft has anything this cogent or helpful posted. You are the MAN, Balon!

 

[Drftr]

Balon,

Thank you, I have been searching for days to fix this and only solution I thought I had left was to re-format.

Thank you for your time again.

Drftr

 

[lwhitti]

windows firewall repair

Hi
I had the same problems as A lot of you I could not repair Windows Firewall what ever I tryed,them I came across a program at TWEAKING.com I ran the program and problem solved

 

[boloco222]

Great thread!

Thanks for the great fix, I'm running AVG and it stopped the virus from really appearing but I don't think it stopped it in time because my firewall was turned off as well.

I noticed that for some reason the windows defender was turned off as well and is getting the same error message 0x80070424, just like the one in the case of the firewall not responding. Did anyone else have this problem? Or is it just because I'm running AVG or some other program that's shut it off.

Thanks again Balon for the fix.

Cheers

 

[Lighty]

Balon,

I have the same problem as other people with being unable to activate their Windows 7 Firewall. I have completely removed all viruses through Hitman Pro and Malwarebytes. The only problem is that I can add the bfe.reg and firewall.reg files (or at least it appears to be added; a popup says that they have been added), but when I go to regedit, it just says HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\BFE.

At first, I just kept going, restarting, right clicking HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, adding Everyone, and then granting full permission. However, I still received an error message when I went to services.msc and tried to Start BFE and Windows Firewall. When I went back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE after restarting, Everyone was still there, but it did not have full permission even though I allowed it earlier.

I suppose this is because the bfe.reg and firewall.reg files aren't being properly added to the registry, but I approved every popup and it said, "The keys and values contained in C:\Users\NAME\Downloads\bfe.reg have been successfully added to the registry."

Help would be very much appreciated. I am flipping out without Windows Firewall.