Windows Vista firewall doesn’t start.

July 1st, 2008 Paul Wallbank Posted in security, Windows Vista | No Comments »

I have an Acer Aspire Laptop with Home Vista Basic and a Trial Version of Symantec Anti Virus 2008. I uninstalled the Symantec Antivirus from the Laptop and installed Avast Free. Whenever I boot the Laptop, Windows Firewall is Off. I turn it on and it stays on. Reboot it’s off. I uninstalled Avast. Still the same problem…… HELP!

First, make sure there are no other firewall programs running. It is possible there is something else in there interfering with the Windows Firewall.

Make sure Norton is fully uninstalled by running the Norton Removal Tool. This will make sure remnants of Norton aren’t interfering.

Next, click the Start button, click find and type services.msc click enter to open the Services window. Scroll down the list of service to the Windows Firewall Service and set it to Automatic.

Restart the computer and it should now be running


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