Windows firewall windows 7 will not start

When you click Turn on now in the Windows Security Center to turn on the Windows Firewall, you receive the following error message:. In the Services console, you notice that the Windows Firewall service is not running even if the service is configured to start automatically. When you manually start the Windows Firewall service, you receive the following error message:.

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. This problem can occur if the account that is used to start the Windows Firewall service does not have permissions to access the related registry entries.

To fix the problem automatically, click the Fix-It image below. If a security notification appears, click Run.

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