you,...yes,you... are completely awesome!!!!!

Thank you so much!  Worked like a charm!

Thanks.

This put BFE back on the services list and running.  However, I am still left without Windows Firewall on the services list.   Do you have a similar reg file I can use for the firewall?

you have to download both for the registery (there are two separate links).

I now show then both in my registery, however it wont allow me to turn them on. I did add "everyone" to the permissions. Does this sound like a permission problem?

I follow all the steps. It works perfectly.

Thanks so much.

It is not working fr me While trying to change the  window firewall settings it shows erroe 1068.

Wat to do??/

After importing to the registry and rebooting, windows starts to black desktop and mouse cursor (no explorer/login screen), and nothing else - have to revert the changes to get back to functioning desktop.

Windows 7 x64

absolutely perfect. I had error code 0x6D9  without being able to access firewall controls. This fix was spot on. Follow the directions exactly. My system: Vista x64. Thanks a bunch. I was gonna reformat next.

It is really great !!. It works awesomely for me as well.

Thank you so much

Worked great! However Windows 7 users ignore the last part after set full control for both BFE and MPSSVC Reg files and reboot like vwvanman above suggests. Make sure to set permissions to both Reg files, follow the same process for both.  

You are truly amazing!  Thank you EVER so much!! :)

This is a great walk-through! This has been giving me a headache for 2

weeks!!! Many thanks!

you are a god. i have been tampering with this for a while now. thank you