Problem with the firewall - HELP

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I am trying to access my XP firewal but I always get the message bellow:
"Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall
settings"

It looks like this is the reason I also can no longer access the windows
update site automaticaly or even manually! Anybody with a good idea?

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"Mark L. Ferguson" <marfer_mvpREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:##uN$eHMFHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Firewall , or internet connection failure - Go to a command prompt and
type in: netsh winsock reset and hit enter, restart the
> machine. You will need to reinstall any programs which have added
themselves to the winsock stack.
>
> Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)

Mark,

Could this have any bearing on the problem I described at
news1pglh$8r1$1@rdel.co.uk

and the follow-up at
news1ts5j$ir6$1@rdel.co.uk ?

Vernon