Cannot activate Windows firewall

westyukwestyuk British born n bred!
edited April 2006 in Science & Tech
Can anyone help ?

I have installed SP2 on my Win Xp laptop, but the radio buttons to activate/disable are greyed out.

This may be due to group policies but i cannot find any policies that would disable this.

Attached is a screen shot of the firewall dialog box.

Any ideas :scratch:

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2005
    Make sure that this service

    Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

    is not disabled, then give it another try. :)
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited July 2005
    Was this laptop already activated with XP? If so, you do not need to activate it again.

    Dexter...
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    Dexter wrote:
    Was this laptop already activated with XP? If so, you do not need to activate it again.

    Dexter...

    Um, XP's Firewall does not need to be activated again when off????
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited August 2005
    Disregard my above, I misread that to be "cannot activate Windows" when I scanned the thread a little too quickly....

    Dexter...
  • burnhotburnhot
    edited April 2006
    Hi westyuk,
    I have the same problem. Did the Service activation help?

    burns
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2006
    burnhot wrote:
    Hi westyuk,
    I have the same problem. Did the Service activation help?

    burns
    If you're referring to my suggestion in Post #2, the best way to find out is to try it. :)
  • burnhotburnhot
    edited April 2006
    I tried it but it didn't help. The Radiobuttons are still disabled.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited April 2006
    See if any of this helps. Even if you haven't run Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware you might still have the LSP problem the article refers to. :)
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    For those of you that are part of a domain, most Active Directories automaticly disable the Windows Firewall and do not allow users to activate it...
  • EssoEsso Stockholm, Sweden
    edited April 2006
    I wouldn't being sad over the Windows SP2 firewall at all.
    It will not block outgoing traffic, preventing trojans and other things to get outpost passport.
    Nice try Microsoft but it's not good enough, do better next time ....

    Install a Firewall like the outpost, which you can download for free for one month.
    http://www.agnitum.com/

    This is Short-Media, where no shortcoming is allowed
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