Windows Vista Firewall will not start
I have a Vista-32 SP1 laptop that will not start the Windows Firewall Service.
Attempting to start it from Services logs an error to the System Log:
EventID 7024
The Windows Firewall service terminated with service-specific error 6801 (0x1A91).
I have tried NETSH FIREWALL RESET. This has not helped.
The problem has come to light as the machine will not let Windows Live Messenger connect to the internet. The machine has had Norton360 and McAfee on it in the past and I think one of those may still be hanging around in the TCP/IP stack somewhere.
There is currently no obvious sign of another firewall on the system.
Whilst not quite the same problem, this KB article had some reg keys to check, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943996. They all have the required permissions.
Attempting to start it from Services logs an error to the System Log:
EventID 7024
The Windows Firewall service terminated with service-specific error 6801 (0x1A91).
I have tried NETSH FIREWALL RESET. This has not helped.
The problem has come to light as the machine will not let Windows Live Messenger connect to the internet. The machine has had Norton360 and McAfee on it in the past and I think one of those may still be hanging around in the TCP/IP stack somewhere.
There is currently no obvious sign of another firewall on the system.
Whilst not quite the same problem, this KB article had some reg keys to check, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943996. They all have the required permissions.
Another location to download that tool http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2194674/norton-removal-tool
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That didn't help, but thanks for the tip.
I looked for a McAfee removal tool, ran that as well but the firewall still will not start up and the same error is logged.
I looked for a McAfee removal tool, ran that as well but the firewall still will not start up and the same error is logged.
Try doing a system restore to a previous state when it was working and then RE-RUn the norton removal tool.
Did you change the security permissions on the firewall service at all??
Did you change the security permissions on the firewall service at all??
Hello, is this issue resolved now??
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This worked after the Norton Removal Tool did not work
Open a "run as administrator" command prompt.
Go to "c:\windows\system32\confi
- run "attrib H S *" to make all hidden files in the directory visible.
- run "del *.blf"
- run "del *.regtrans-ms"
- reboot the machine
Open a "run as administrator" command prompt.
Go to "c:\windows\system32\confi
- run "attrib H S *" to make all hidden files in the directory visible.
- run "del *.blf"
- run "del *.regtrans-ms"
- reboot the machine
I had a similar issue and after running this tool and restarting the PC it all worked fine.