Disabling Windows XP Firewall Stops All Traffic?

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Hi,

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 which currently has the firewall turned on.
As we use Symantec Client Security in our company, that has it's own
firewall, I'd like to turn Windows firewall off. However everytime I do, it
seems to stop ALL traffic from going in or out. I've disabled it on other
workstations, and never had any problem. However on this 1 particular
laptop, disabling it just stops all traffic until it's re-enabled again.

Is there a way of disabling it without this happening? Am I missing a
setting that maybe wasn't on the other workstations?

Cheers

Ben