Windows Firewall

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After installing Windows XP2 I apparently cannot have windows firewall
enabled. I no longer have the option of turning the firewall on or off. When
I go to the 'advanced' tab under network connections, it shows the section
called 'Windows Firewall' and under it 'protect my computer and network by
limiting' .......so and so forth and to the right is a settings button. When
I press the settings button I get a message that says 'windows firewall
settings cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running,
do you want to start the WF/ICS; I click yes, it attempts to start the
firewall/ics and then says it cannot be started with no explanation or error
message. I have attempted to add ICS under 'add windows components' in
control panel but was not successful.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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That worked. Thanks alot!

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> johnfort wrote:
>
> > After installing Windows XP2 I apparently cannot have windows firewall
> > enabled. I no longer have the option of turning the firewall on or off. When
> > I go to the 'advanced' tab under network connections, it shows the section
> > called 'Windows Firewall' and under it 'protect my computer and network by
> > limiting' .......so and so forth and to the right is a settings button. When
> > I press the settings button I get a message that says 'windows firewall
> > settings cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running,
> > do you want to start the WF/ICS; I click yes, it attempts to start the
> > firewall/ics and then says it cannot be started with no explanation or error
> > message. I have attempted to add ICS under 'add windows components' in
> > control panel but was not successful.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
>
> More about this issue here as well:
>
> After you run Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta), you have network-
> related problems, or you receive an error message
> http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;892350
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/s [...] fault.mspx
>