• Firewall service set to automatic, but never turns on during startup. Why?
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So having a bit of a problem with this. No matter what I try, my firewall is always disabled when I start my computer. This is a problem because services I use such as Plex and my remote shut off program do not work if my firewall is disabled, for some reason. Once I enable my firewall, they work fine. I can turn it on manually each time I start up my PC just fine. This isn't good though because if I am using Plex remotely there isn't a way to actually do this. Under my services panel, my firewall is set to be "Automatic" which means it SHOULD turn on when I start up but it never does - the service is stopped until I manually start it. How can I get my Firewall to turn on when my computer turns on then? I'm not using 3rd party firewall or anti-virus so that shouldn't be automatically disabling it.
I'd say to just set up windows scheduler to start it up a minute after your PC boots rather than try and figure out why windows isn't acting correctly
Trying to do that, but its not working. Every time I try to make a task, ANY task, I get the error " An error has occurred for task <task name>. Error message: A task or folder with this name already exists." No matter what name or what I do with task scheduler I get that issue. [editline]21st May 2014[/editline] Well fixed it with a work around. Did this: [url]http://arktronic.com/weblog/2013-11-06/how-to-run-an-elevated-privilege-as-administrator-app-on-windows-startup[/url] ...and put that .vbs file in my startup folder, which means on startup it runs a bat file that shuts down the firewall service and starts it up with admin privileges. This seems to do the trick. Task Scheduler is still broken for me though. Not worrying about it.
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