since installing the Avira antivirus I havent been able to get into my windows firewall, im not very technically minded and ive gone into the services via the start and firewall isnt listed, when going into the control panel and under security section I click on reccomended settings and it comes up as " unable to proceed due to error" anyone got any ideas as to whats going on

What operating system? Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

I have windows 7 the error code that keeps coming up is 0x80070424 and I use internet explorercarol lee

This is windows server group so I'd ask them here. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7 Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Please refer to this KB article: Error 0x80070424 ocurs when you use Windows Update, Microsoft Update, or Windows Firewall http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968002 Meanwhile, for Windows 7 related questions, please ask in Windows 7 forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro Thanks. Regards, MiyaMiya Yao TechNet Community Support

Please refer to this KB article: Error 0x80070424 ocurs when you use Windows Update, Microsoft Update, or Windows Firewall http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968002 Meanwhile, for Windows 7 related questions, please ask in Windows 7 forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro Thanks. Regards, MiyaMiya Yao TechNet Community Support

Hi cazz46, Avira and other popular Antivirus softwares have got there own application firewall embeded into it. While installing such antivirus, it will disable the Windows firewall and antivirus sofware's firewall will take care of your systems security. If you wish to start your windows firewall, Go to your antivrius settings and disable antivirus programs firewall. Error 0x80070424 occured because the antivrus program may not installled properly during installation. Uninstall that Antivirus and reboot your PC and try to enable your firewall.

Hi cazz46, Avira and other popular Antivirus softwares have got there own application firewall embeded into it. While installing such antivirus, it will disable the Windows firewall and antivirus sofware's firewall will take care of your systems security. If you wish to start your windows firewall, Go to your antivrius settings and disable antivirus programs firewall. Error 0x80070424 occured because the antivrus program may not installled properly during installation. Uninstall that Antivirus and reboot your PC and try to enable your firewall.

I have now uninstalled Avira as it took over quite a bit of my windows applications and blocked a load of stuff, it even invaded my win32 services saying there was a virus on it but in fact it put it on there itself in order for you to pay extra for an upgrade even though id bought the premium version, Avira have refunded me my money but I would never ever reccomend Avira to anyone, I have put a malware byte programme on and a system cleaner on the safe mode and that cleaned and rectified the problem. Thank you to all the suggestions you all gave me but the only advice I can give to anyone is DONT USE AVIRA EVERcarol lee