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I cannot turn on windows firewall
After the most recent windows update firewall has been off. I tried turning it on from the control panel I get error code 0x80070422 and when I try to run it from command prompt I get error 1058...
Based on your symptoms, the core services are disabled. Here is the most direct fix:
- Press Win + R, type services.msc, and press Enter.
- Find these services and double-click to set them to Automatic and Start them:
- Windows Defender Firewall
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Base Filtering Engine
- Restart your PC.
If any service fails to start (especially Base Filtering Engine), you likely have deeper system file corruption and should run sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth in an Administrator Command Prompt.