What is network access protection agent

The Network Access Protection Agent is a Windows Service that is configured to a Manual start which means it is normally not running on your system.

If your computer is connected to a corporate network, the corporate network administrator may have established a "health status" policy for client computers running on his network.  The network administrator has tools, programs and policies that can check the health status of client computers on the network.

If a client computer on the corporate network is determined to be unhealthy for some reason (maybe out of date software) that client computer could be disabled from accessing the network, it could be adjusted to have reduced network access or software updates could be pushed to the client computer in an attempt to make it healthy again.

If your system is not on a corporate network where there are NAP policies in place there is no need for the NAP Service to be enabled and running all day and night with nothing to do - and it will never have anything to do unless your system is on a network that uses and enforces NAP policies.

If you think that enabling NAP will resolve some issue you are having you can enable it to run and start it:

Click the Start orb and in the box enter:

services.msc

Press enter or click services.msc to open the Services applet, scroll down to the Network Access Protection Agent, right click and choose Properties.

Change the Startup type to Automatic and click the Start button to start the NAP Agent (it should start) and click OK to save the adjustments:

Now every time you restart your system the NAP Agent will start running since and it will never find anything to do (unless you are on a corporate network that uses such policies) your system will be wasting your CPU and memory cycles all day and night.

And you will still have the same problem you had before you started the NAP Agent (whatever that is).

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Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would suggest you to refer to the Microsoft Help Article given below and check if that helps.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-security/how-to-turn-on-network-access-protection/7daeddb9-f652-4fac-a3bc-e1234c928add

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