Hello, thanks greatly in advance for your help. I have been pulling my hairs and teeth out over this.
I basically just got a subscription to a proxy service, and have installed their firewall program that interfaces with their proxy services. However whenever I try to launch the program it keeps giving me this error:
Function: InitializeFirewall
Error#5
Description: Access is denied
I can't figure out why this is. I've tried disabling my Windows Firewall (I am using XP Home), disabled spyware, and disabled antivirus. Same problem. I do have admin privileges on my computer too. I've tried on another computer though and it worked just fine. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Lets reverse what we have did above. In Msconfig under general tab set it to normal start up and under services tab enable all.
here we will reset the permissions for the administrators.
Then: Since it still doesnt work there is a registry item that is not allowing the application to start. We need to find the conflicting registry item and tweak it. If you can clone this drive for back up porposes that would be great. Registry operations are easy though risky. Get a clone / set a restore point ( optional ) and back up your regisrty ( start - run - regedit - file - export )
1. Download and install subinacl from:
http://www.microsoft.com/d
2. Create a file named reset.cmd in C:\Program Files\Windows Resource
Kits\Tools folder.
3. Edit the reset.cmd file with the following content. ( how to : open up a text document. paste the following in it. save it. then in windows explorer ( double click on my computer ) tools - folder options - view and uncheck hide extentions for known file types. then rename the file that u just saved to reset.cmd - delete the txt extention. Now you have a batch file. )
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
4. Enter into CMD prompt. start - run - cmd
5. Enter the following commands one at a time and click Enter.
cd\
cd "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
reset.cmd
6. Let the program do it's work and reboot and retry
Thanks Purple Sky. Firstly I want to say how much I appreciate all your time and help with this problem thus far- it means a lot to me.
However a bit of daunting news, I have done everything in your instructions to a T, allowed the batch file to run for about 10-15 minutes, and rebooted only to have the same error again with the firewall software. I think it's been narrowed down significantly though, and I was wondering/hoping if you had a few more insights into this matter?
I hope you backed up your system.
Lets uninstall the application and enable verbose logging ( follow the instructions - below link ) ( make sure you reverse this change after using it )
http://support.microsoft.c
then after you enable verbose logging, install the firewall and run it ans see it fail.
Open the Setupapi.log file. By default, this file is located in the C:\Windows folder. To open the Setupapi.log file, click Start, click Run, type %windir%\setupapi.log, and then click OK.
Press CTRL+END to scroll to the end of the Setupapi.log file.
On the Edit menu, click Find.
In the Find what box, type Error 5: Access is denied under Direction, click Up, and then click Find Next.
The line before the "Access is denied" entry indicates the registry key in question
As soon as you have found the registry subkey that has the incorrect permissions, update the permissions for that subkey.
To update the permissions of the registry subkey, follow these steps:
-Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK to start Registry Editor.
-Locate and right-click the registry subkey that you noted in Step 2d, and then click Permissions.
-Under Group or user names, click Administrators.
-Under Permissions for Administrators, make sure that the Allow check box for the following entries is selected:
--Full Control
--Read
-Click Apply, and then click OK.
-On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.
and retry.
( note : do not forget the reverse step one as those log files will occupy a lot of space by time )
Thanks once again Purple Sky.
I spent a while backing up my system. And then I followed your steps. When I look in the setupapi log file, I don't see any occurrences of any part of the error code. After uninstalling and reinstalling the software, I ran it several times to allow for the error to pop up, but this does not seem to be recorded in the setupapi log file. Do you have any more insights into this? Sorry for the questions, I had no idea this prob would be so involved. Thank you.
Thanks PurpleSky and Kprad, I've resolved this problem thanks to both of your guidance. Though Kprad's suggestion ultimately led me to the working solution, Purple Sky definitely laid lots of the groundwork and I (as well as others in the future) will have learned a lot from his insights. Thank you all for your time, I appreciate it greatly.
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Lets go to start - run - msconfig - under general tab : selective start up - uncheck load start up items. and under services tab : check hide microsoft services and then desiable all. Restart and try the firewall now. If it works we will have to find the conflicting process or service.