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The Windows Vista Firewall will not work.

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johnyabotty

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The Windows Vista Firewall will not work. If I try to turn the firewall on, it tells me that it cannot turn it on because the firewall service is not on, and then it asks me if I want to turn the firewall service on. I click yes. It then gives me an error message saying that Windows cannot start the firewall service, and the only option it gives me is okay.

I have done some research on the subject and have found that the Windows Firewall service requires the Base Filtering Engine service to be started for it to be able to work. I go and look in the services section and lo and behold, the Base Filtering Engine is not enabled. I try and start the service and get the following error message: Windows could not start the Base Filtering Engine on Local Computer. Error 0x80320009: An object with that GUID or LUID already exists.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!
 
Did you by chance try to reduce Vista's footprint by removing things?

Actually, whether you did or not, I would do a repair installation.
 
No I didn't tweak anything, for the most part I don't know anything about this kind of stuff, but I do have to admit if there is a way to reduce the amount of processing power that vista eats up, I would like to hear about that as well.
 
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