Windows Firewall w/ Vista Service Pack 1?

[Michael D'Angelo]

At some point after I updated my laptop with Vista Home Premium to service pack 1 my Windows firewall stopped working. I did not notice it right away so I don't know if it happened as soon as a installed SP1 or some time after.

I have tried to turn it back on countless number of times and it just keeps saying it can not turn it on.

Any idea's how to fix this?

Thanks

[phat78boy]

Can you manually start the service? If not, you should get a more detailed reason why in event viewer. Let us know the error code from event viewer.

[Michael D'Angelo]

Can you manually start the service? If not, you should get a more detailed reason why in event viewer. Let us know the error code from event viewer.

Even when I try to manually turn it on all it says is it can't turn it on and I don't get an error message.

[phat78boy]

Do you have norton installed? Running any other type of spyware or antivirus?

[Michael D'Angelo]

Do you have norton installed?

No, I am using AVG. I may have just found the problem. I will update in a few minutes.

[LarryFlowers]

Mike?

[Michael D'Angelo]

Mike?

yea?

[Michael D'Angelo]

Ok, what I found did not help so any idea's would be greatly appreciated.

[deltafowler]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Tweak-the-Windows-Firewall-in-Windows-Vista-SP1-78719.shtml

Maybe some help

[OverThereTooMuch]

You might want to check this out - http://blogs.msdn.com/mthree/archive/2008/03/24/sp1-support-032408.aspx

[phat78boy]

If you go into control panel, then to administrative tools, then to the windows firewall icon....can you enable from the MMC plugin that comes up?

[Michael D'Angelo]

Thanks for the help guys. I just spent the last two hours on the phone with a Microsoft tech and it is still not working. He is having a advance tech call me tomorrow to see if he can get it to work, I doubt it.

So I am starting to think I may have to clear everything and start over. If that is the case it is not the end of the world.