Cant turn on my windows firewall

If there's an app you need to use that's being blocked, you can allow it through the firewall, instead of turning the firewall off. Note: If you get errors, or if the setting won't turn on, you can use the troubleshooter and then try again.

What is a Firewall? Microsoft Defender Windows 11 Windows 10 More Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. So, we came up with a few solutions, in order to help you to solve the problem with Windows 10 Firewall. Probably, something disrupted the service, but restarting Windows Firewall will likely bring it back to normal. To restart the Windows Firewall service, perform the previous steps.

Microsoft is aware that users occasionally experience problems with Windows Firewall, so it provided a solution to this problem. Even though this problem emerged recently for Windows 10 users, it plagued users for years on former Windows iterations, as well. For that purpose, the folks from Microsoft decided to, in order to avoid in-depth troubleshooting for common users, offer a unified downloadable troubleshooter.

This tool did good work on Vista and Windows 7 so we can expect positive results in Windows 10, too. Constant updates that are the common workflow for Windows 10 have a lot of side effects. One of those is, allegedly, forced changes of certain system settings concerning essential built-in programs. Expert Tip: Some PC issues are hard to tackle, especially when it comes to corrupted repositories or missing Windows files. If you are having troubles fixing an error, your system may be partially broken.

We recommend installing Restoro, a tool that will scan your machine and identify what the fault is. Click here to download and start repairing. Windows Firewall certainly falls in that category. In order to resolve possible issues with an alternative configuration imposed by Windows Update , you should reset Firewall settings.

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Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Reza Ameri Volunteer Moderator. Right-click Services. If you are prompted, enter your administrator user name and password, and then press Enter. Scroll until you see Windows Firewall , and then double-click Windows Firewall. Click the Startup type box, and then click Automatic. If Service status is Stopped , click Start. Click Apply , and then click OK. Restart Windows and confirm whether Windows Firewall is enabled.

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