Windows FW fix with Avast 5

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I dug this up from your archives to help those who cannot turn off Windows firewall. This fix me twice.

"As for the security center error, this little hack (incase anyone else gets this issue) resets the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). In Vista, run cmd as admin otherwise do
Code:

net stop winmgmt
cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem
ren repository repository.old
net start winmgmt

It may take a little bit to rebuild the database. After that restart and you should be good to go."

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Copy of suggestion I used. Avie

"Please try the following and see if the issue resolves.

  1. Click the start button and search on the word “CMD” - “CMD.exe” should appear.
  2. Right click on it and select “run as administrator”.
  3. In the command window at the prompt type each line and press Enter:

net stop winmgmt

cd c:\windows\system32\wbem

ren repository repository.old

net start winmgmt

  1. Then, please restart the computer and check the result."

James Denham
Consumer Support Tier 1 Lead

Sunbelt Software
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