Windows firewall problem

[thePh@r@oh]

i was having some connection problems just minor stuff so i decided to go turn off windows firewall to see what happned well wen i got in there to change the sittings and clicked on the firewall menu...it gave me an error message....Due to unidentified problem, Windows cannot display windows firewall settings...

[PC TECH250]

Need a quick fix? http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm #338 over to right side
in right hand column "Restore the Security Center Service".

[thePh@r@oh]

that didnt work

[blubomber]

how did you get to the firewall settings? did you go through the security center or the properties of the network card? If you did go through the security center, try going into the properties for the network card to see if you can turn off your firewall there.

[PC TECH250]

Have you reviewed this: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;283673

[thePh@r@oh]

went through prperties and it did the same thing...gonna read the MS support file



tried running firewall.cpl same thing happened....dunno what is goin gon here......

[Jeordiewhite]

I've seen the WMI get corrupted and caused an issue from preventing you to access the setting. Not sure what you can do for that, except for maybe reinstalling the service pack or a repair. It could be possible that what ever is corrupted is related to your connection issues.

As for turning off the firewall, go to your start menu > then go to run > then type in: netsh firewall set opmode disable

That will disable your firewall, you can change it to enable if you want it back on.

[x2ruff4u]

or just go in services.msc and disable it there

[thePh@r@oh]

i got tired of messing with it and just reinstalled the sp