Change Windows Firewall settings

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Hi,
Everytime I click on "Change Windows Firewall settings" I get this error
message:

"Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall
settings."

What's happening? What I need to do to solve this?

thanx.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

Curioso wrote:

> Hi,
> Everytime I click on "Change Windows Firewall settings" I get
> this error message:
>
> "Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display
> Windows Firewall settings."
>
> What's happening? What I need to do to solve this?
Hi

See if registering the following DLLs helps:

From Start/Run, run the following commands:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\atl.dll

then

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\hnetcfg.dll
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netshell.dll
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netcfgx.dll
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netman.dll

Then do a reboot.


If that didn't work, please try this:

Start/Run --> cmd.exe

and then, in the command prompt that opened up, type:

netsh.exe winsock reset

and hit Enter. Follow prompts and reboot.


After resetting winsock you should re-install any applications which
are layered service providers (lsp). typical apps of this nature are
firewalls and anti-virus/anti-spyware.


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