MSDN Article: "How To Restrict TCP/IP Ports on Windows 200..

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The article you refer to is for "RPC" via "DCOM" - if you wish to just
restrict a range of ports via TCP/UDP, then you need to do this in your
firewall configuration, whether it be the windows firewall or some other 3rd
party firewall product.

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"svaardt_news" <svaardt_news_at@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I was hoping to restrict the range of ports used by Internet Explorer fo
>incoming traffic to a range above 5000. However the following article
>appears to be no longer valid on my XP Pro (SP2) box:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] us;Q300083
>
> I do the following:
>
> 1. From the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Administrative
> Tools, and then click Component Services to start Component Services.
> 2. Click to expand the Component Services and Computers nodes.
> Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
>
>
> But at this point there's nothing that resembles Step 3....
>
> So is there an alternative, perhaps via the Registry ?
>
> Basically I want to restrict the local port usage of applications to a
> certain range of TCP/UDP ports.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Steve
>
>