Re: Problem with Windows Firewall

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Jussi Grönfors wrote:

I've had SP2 installed for a long time now, and the firewall seemed to work without any problems. All of a sudden my computer got filled with spyware & virus' and after a long fight I got rid of them with my antispyware & antivirus programs. Anyway, some of the spyware seemed to disable the Windows Firewall, and now I can't get it on anymore. It shows a message which says 'due to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display firewall settings'.
Anyone knows how to fix this?
Hi,

See if registering the following DLLs helps:

From Start/Run, run the following commands:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\ATL.DLL

then

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\HNETCFG.DLL
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\NETSHELL.DLL
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\NETCFGX.DLL
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\NETMAN.DLL

Then do a reboot.


If that didn't work, please try this:


Please try this:

Start/Run --> cmd.exe

and then, in the command prompt that opened up, type:

netsh.exe winsock reset

and hit Enter. Follow prompts and reboot.


After resetting winsock you should re-install any applications which
are layered service providers (lsp). typical apps of this nature are
firewalls and anti-virus/anti-spyware.


If the above didn't help, see if this one works:

"Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings" error while
accessing Firewall settings in Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/sharedaccess.htm



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