Re: sudden loss of windows firewall

the netsh command in SP2 can rebuild your Winsock. Open the command prompt and type: netsh winsock reset , then press ENTER.

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Mark L. Ferguson
FAQ for MS Antispyware version 1.0.509
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Mystika" <Mystika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:94587EF6-78D3-4EA5-9F2B-EB396E49F36F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've been running windows firewall with no problems. Suddenly it turned
> itself off and I cannot manually turn it back on...I get an error message
> saying that windows cannot start ICS (internet sharing connection services).
>
> Why? I need the firewall and this is a real, registered version of Win XP.


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