Installed universal forwarder credential package and UF agent in a Windows Machine. Still not receiving data

[kate]

Installed universal forwarder credential package and UF agent in a Windows Machine. Still not receiving data.
Restart of splunk forwarder done. Installation of both package is with same user i.e. root.

Unable to even receive any type of data from the windows OS.Need assistance.

[richgalloway]

Have you checked if any firewalls are blocking connections to Splunk Cloud?  What does splunkd.log say?

Please confirm the user that installed the UF.  Windows does not have 'root'.