Windows Firewall

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I'm trying to enable the windows firewall, however when I try to connect it,
a window pops up saying " Windows Firewall settings cannot be displayed
because the associated service is not running. Do you want to start the
Windows Firewall/ Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service?" Then, if I
click yes, another window will pop up saying that Windows cannot start the
Firewall/ ICS service. Can anyone help me, please?

 

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"Windows Firewall Trouble" <Windows Firewall
Trouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C82B7431-0C64-4B00-B947-B2E44246F814@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to enable the windows firewall, however when I try to connect
> it,
> a window pops up saying " Windows Firewall settings cannot be displayed
> because the associated service is not running. Do you want to start the
> Windows Firewall/ Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service?" Then, if I
> click yes, another window will pop up saying that Windows cannot start the
> Firewall/ ICS service. Can anyone help me, please?

Have you tried Control Panel>>Services>>Windows Firewall and check that the
service has started. Also do you have another firewall running that could be
interfering with the build in firewall?