Can"t turn on Windows Firewall

Hello all,

I have a Windows XP (with SP2) and I am trying to turn on my Windows
Firewall, however, the option is grayed out. I am logged on as
administrator. I am not on a domain and all the settings for Windows
Firewall are Not Configured in my Local Security Policies. I have run
Ad-Aware, Stinger, HiJackThis, and Norton Antivirus and they have not
found any malware or viruses. I don't know if a virus or malware had
gotten in and changed the registry or what. Any help is greatly
appreciated!

Re: Can"t turn on Windows Firewall

Try the following links:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy /depfwset/default.mspx

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-3016.html

Failing that, go to http://www.goggle.com and search using "windows xp sp2
firewall grayed out" (minus the quote marks)

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz

wrote in message
news:1137536951.115693.287330@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hello all,
>
> I have a Windows XP (with SP2) and I am trying to turn on my Windows
> Firewall, however, the option is grayed out. I am logged on as
> administrator. I am not on a domain and all the settings for Windows
> Firewall are Not Configured in my Local Security Policies. I have run
> Ad-Aware, Stinger, HiJackThis, and Norton Antivirus and they have not
> found any malware or viruses. I don't know if a virus or malware had
> gotten in and changed the registry or what. Any help is greatly
> appreciated!
>

Re: Can"t turn on Windows Firewall

Thanks for the help however, I didn't see much to help me out. Pretty
much everything that I have seen is that either I don't have rights
(but I am administrator) and that there may be Group Policy Settings
blocking it (however, everything is set to Not Configured). Any
thoughts? Thanks.

Wayne wrote:
> Try the following links:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy /depfwset/default.mspx
>
> http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-3016.html
>
> Failing that, go to http://www.goggle.com and search using "windows xp sp2
> firewall grayed out" (minus the quote marks)
>
> Wayne McGlinn
> Brisbane, Oz
>
> wrote in message
> news:1137536951.115693.287330@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com.. .
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a Windows XP (with SP2) and I am trying to turn on my Windows
> > Firewall, however, the option is grayed out. I am logged on as
> > administrator. I am not on a domain and all the settings for Windows
> > Firewall are Not Configured in my Local Security Policies. I have run
> > Ad-Aware, Stinger, HiJackThis, and Norton Antivirus and they have not
> > found any malware or viruses. I don't know if a virus or malware had
> > gotten in and changed the registry or what. Any help is greatly
> > appreciated!
> >

Re: Can"t turn on Windows Firewall

In case anyone comes up with the same problem, I realized that a
setting in the registry was changed. I changed it from 0 to 1.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE FIREWALL