Re: Can't enable MS Firewall



Ramesh's suggestion seems to have worked.
The tab in which one opts to turn Windows Firewall ON is now active.

A fuuny thing is, though, that my system restarted with the Windows
Firewall ON, even though my old firewall (Tiny Personal Firewall) is
running as a service. I even got a msg on startup from "Windows
Security Alert". It warned me that "Windows Firewall" is blocking my
program "AddSubtract", which blocks cookies and ads. And it allows me
to unblock it, which I did.

I shut down my old firewall and looked at the processes running.
I don't see a "Windows Firewall" process running at all! I have a
"Windows Security Alert" icon in my system tray. It says that
"Firewall" is ON. I guess the reason that it is there is that
"Automatic Updates" is OFF.
Even after removing the old firewall and restarting, I don't see a
Windows Firewall process.

I noticed another thing in the list of processes,
A new process appeared: "alg.exe", which process explorer claims is an
"Application Layer Gateway Service" (whatever that is).

So, now that Ramesh and Curt have solved my problem, I have two final
questions:
1- How do I control the Windows Firewall? A specific example is that
I need to unblock a port so my Torrent program can run better. Where
are the instructions for controlling and examining things?

2- If Windows Firewall doesn't allow me to control it, then would
someone recommend a (free) firewall? I tried Zone Alarm once and
couldn't quite set it up correctly. I forgot now what the problem
was.

3- I see no Windows Firewall process running. So is it running?

Alan

Thanks, Ramesh and Curt. I could not have done this without your
help.

.

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