The Windows Firewall service terminated with service-specific error Access is denied. If you look in the System Event Log, you will see event 7024 from the Service Control Manager If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 5. For more information, review the system event log. Windows could not start the Windows Firewall on Local Computer. When you attempt to start the Windows 7 firewall service you receive the following error Problem – Firewall service is turned on and you cannot adjust any firewall settings because firewall service cannot be started However this might be also configured, for example, by a startup script issuing netsh commands, it all depends on the domain administrator's methods.

Windows Vista+ Firewall is usually configured by Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. To get a detailed report of applied GPOs to your computer. If you have administrative access to this computer you can run: gpresult /h report_computer.html /scope:computer

If said computer is in a domain, as your post indicates, this may not even work at all - the Firewall will get reconfigured on a GP update if there is a GPO that configures it. One of the proper ways of disabling Windows Firewall completely (on all profiles) is to issue this command in an administrative cmd: netsh advfirewall set AllProfiles state off What is more this practice is discouraged and explicitly not supported by Microsoft as stated here. The firewall is disabled.Starting from Windows Vista disabling the Windows Firewall service is not doing what it did in Windows XP, because of the introduction of Windows Filtering Platform. I can see some other packets to the multicast address that I thing my wireshark settings are correct. In wireshark I use the filter udp.port = 5353. If I change the multicast address to an existing address like 10.10.10.10 then I see the UDP packet in wireshark. I can not see any traffic in the wireshark (on Windows). I can receive it on the same machine in another program. The follow code work only locally for me.

Windows firewall is disabled