of earlier messages. My Windows XP Home SP2 firewall is not working as expected. It ignores its checkboxes for network connections and exceptions. Is there a way to repair it without uninstalling SP2? For example, can just the Windows firewall be reinstalled?...

be appreciated. Thanks a bunch. KB Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsme.general () Choose 1 only. Installing more than 1 firewall software is not recommended. If you are running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Firewall is turned...

firewall not working. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () i had downloaded the xp pack with the firewall, not sure which one it was (you know it, let me know) it worked great, then brilliant me, thought i would try the mcafee firewall,...

installing a new firewall will help might depend on why it's not working. On the other hand, a nice plus to a third party firewall is that it monitors outgoing traffic as well as incoming. XP's firewall monitors incoming only. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows...

open and walking away. For this reason, I say the Windows Firewall is crude at best. I whole-heartedly agree that a perimeter firewall is a much better solution. Myself, I use a hardware firewall at my network perimeter and software firewalls (ZA)...

to the security setting to turn it on, I click on the icon and get the following: Windows firewall settings cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running. Do you want to start the window's firewall/internet connection service?...

software firewall is working, try the following: Control Panel> Security> Click on Windows Firewall> Select OFF> When you get back to the Security page> Press Firewall Recommendations button> Check, " I have a firewall solution....."> OK. -- Click...

is infected. It may or may > not currently affect 9x - but best to lose, forever, the bad practice of > going online without a (working) firewall in place (if the firewall isn't >working, or you don't have one, don't go online). >> Shane >> Archived...

to do that- unless Dell says that the service pack update will definitely not work without it. I have a 2 year old 8200 which so far works just fine. When I do it, I presume I should turn off the Windows firewall, disable my McAfee AV. Maybe also do...

got it to work only if I turned off Windows firewall on the server (XP Pro). The Windows firewall looked like it was properly configured with checks in both boxes for the 2 flavors of VPN protocols PPTP and LT2P. We could establish a connection but not see...