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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows 8 => Topic started by: SignedAdam on December 23, 2012, 09:59:51 AM

Title: Windows store refusing to installing apps (because windows firewall is off)
Post by: SignedAdam on December 23, 2012, 09:59:51 AM

Error message in Windows Store :
The app could not be installed, because the windows firewall service is not running, please enable the windows firewall service and try again,

(http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=134965.0;attach=20676)

I'm an advanced user, so i wish to use my own firewall, so i don't want to enable the windows firewall! is there anything we advanced users can do, to get around this, maybe a regedit value change or something, to make windows store, think the windows firewall service is on, when its not, so we all can use are own firewalls


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Title: Re: Windows store refusing to installing apps (because windows firewall is off)
Post by: BC_Programmer on December 23, 2012, 10:44:26 AM

The windows 8 Firewall service emcompasses more than just Windows Firewall; It's basically required for Windows 8 to work properly.

If you don't want the Firewall functionality of the service, the proper way to disable it is to go into the Firewall Control Panel Applet, and set domain, public, and private profiles all to "off".

Title: Re: Windows store refusing to installing apps (because windows firewall is off)
Post by: SignedAdam on December 23, 2012, 01:39:28 PM

Then the service is still running and coursing my computer to slow down, the cpu level is 100% when the service is on

Title: Re: Windows store refusing to installing apps (because windows firewall is off)
Post by: BC_Programmer on December 23, 2012, 01:52:29 PM

Quote from: SignedAdam on December 23, 2012, 01:39:28 PM

Then the service is still running and coursing my computer to slow down, the cpu level is 100% when the service is on

If you are using another Firewall program, it might not be compatible with Windows 8.

Title: Re: Windows store refusing to installing apps (because windows firewall is off)
Post by: Allan on December 23, 2012, 01:55:24 PM

Quote from: SignedAdam on December 23, 2012, 01:39:28 PM

Then the service is still running and coursing my computer to slow down, the cpu level is 100% when the service is on

Also, which process is using the cpu when it's spiking?

Title: Re: Windows store refusing to installing apps (because windows firewall is off)
Post by: SignedAdam on December 26, 2012, 01:00:00 PM

well it was windows firewall service, when I stopped the windows firewall service, the cpu level would go down, I had no other firewall installed, when I found the problem, its 100% windows firewall, if you have not worked it out yet, windows firewall does a lot more now, so there's going to be more problems in windows 8, why they could not have made a other service, I don't know.. so right now im having to use a other firewall, to get round this problem..