Unable to start Windows Defender Firewall

[SpheroHere]

Hi, I'm having problem with my Windows Firewall. I have tried restarting this service from my task manager services but it won't. Although it's status always show as starting. I guess due to this, other services depending on it like Base Filtering Engine, CoreMessaging are taking almost 30-35% CPU space and slowing my system down. Please provide a solution for this.

[KrazyToad · Accepted solution]

@SpheroHere

Please run an SFC Scan. You can follow the instructions in this Link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4026529/windows-10-using-system-file-checker

Next follow these steps

Step 1: Click “Settings” in the “Start Menu”. And then choose “Update & Security”. 

Step 2: Select “Windows Security” from the left pane and choose “Open Windows Defender Security Center”. 

Step 3: Open Windows Defender’s settings, and then click on the "Virus & Threat Protection settings" link.

Step 4: Click the Real-Time Protection, Cloud-Delivered Protection and Automatic Sample Submission switches to turn Windows Defender off.

Then follow the same steps to turn it back ON again

Keep me posted how it goes😊

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[SpheroHere]

@KrazyToad

Just updating the windows, solved the problem for me.

Thanks

[Riddle_Decipher]

@SpheroHere That's awesome, I'm glad that worked,

Have a good day, ahead.