Firewall service won't start! 5 (0x5) All my VISTA Machines

[chazzy2501]

After my installing spice works I've noticed that only 2 of my 66 vista machines have been spotted. Today I decided to trouble shoot to find that all the vista machines can't start their firewall service. The error I get is firewall service cannot start 5 (0x5), when I googled it I got the microsoft fix it software so I gave it a shot and it said it'd change some security settings for the MpsSvc. I let it do it's thing and the firewall is fixed. I ran gpupdate /force to see if it's my GPOs causing the issue but it's still working so I'll have to blame a recent update. Anyone know how I might deploy a fix?

[SYNACK]

What AV are you running, some of them replace the windows firewall with their own brand of evil which prevent the windows one from starting and usually get in the way of everything but viruses.

[Psymon]

We had this a while back.

 

This should solve the issue.

 

Windows Firewall - Not Using Recommended Settings

 

I posted it aaaaages ago

Si