Re: xp firewall grayed out
- From: "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:31:14 +0530
You're welcome Billy.
-- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User
Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
"Billy1037" <Billy1037@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:E9328D0B-4303-45BA-AF3C-4D43C39B1ABC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't recall it saying "For your security, some settings are controlled by Group Policy" at the top
However--that did fix it! :-) I tested it with shields up and it's working.
Thanks a bunch.
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
When you open (or 'run') firewall.cpl, does it read as "For your security,
some settings are controlled by Group Policy" at the top of the applet? If
that's the case, try this:
For Windows XP Home Edition: ---------------------------------
Open Regedit.exe and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfilÂe (and) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfÂile
In the right-pane, delete the "EnableFirewall" value.
Close Regedit.exe and restart Windows.
For Windows XP Professional: -------------------------------
From Start/Run, type Gpedit.msc and navigate to:
Computer Configuration => Administrative Templates => System => Network => Network Connections => Windows Firewall => Standard Profile
Set the following options to "Not Configured" (defaults)
Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections Windows Firewall: Do not allow exceptions Windows Firewall: Define program exceptions Windows Firewall: Allow local program exceptions Windows Firewall: Allow remote administration exception Windows Firewall: Allow file and printer sharing exception Windows Firewall: Allow ICMP exceptions Windows Firewall: Allow Remote Desktop exception Windows Firewall: Allow UPnP framework exception Windows Firewall: Prohibit notifications Windows Firewall: Allow logging Windows Firewall: Prohibit unicast response to multicast or broadcast requests Windows Firewall: Define port exceptions Windows Firewall: Allow local port exceptions
-- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User
Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
"Billy1037" <Billy1037@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ACA86013-A48B-4BD5-BA93-8212BC0A98CF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Either a virus(since removed) or program has grayed out the setting to
> turn
> XP firewall on and off. I was able to turn the firewall on by editing > 2
> keys
> in the registry:
>
> HKLM\software\policies\microsoft\windowsfirewall\standardprofile
> "EnableFirewall'
> and the same for ..\DomainProfile "EnableFirewall" = dword:1
>
> how can I now reenable the switches to turn it on and off from the > windows
> firewall gui? To my knowledge there is no other firewall on this > system.
>
> Thanks
.
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