Network Connection And Sharing Center & Microsoft Firewall not functioning

After some strange issues regarding the Network Connection and Sharing Center not working properly I figured out that adding both the Local Server and Network Service accounts to the local administrator group fixed the issue. Then I encountered a problem with the firewall not working. Searching led to this post on Microsoft: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7security/thread/754bba1e-d100-45b2-8a2e-91ed41af61e3?prof=required Where http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943996/en-us […]