What does the banner section at the top of the dialog say? My suspicion is
that it says that settings are being controlled by group policy.
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David
Microsoft Windows Networking
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"Brian Huether" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In the firewall control panel, both the enable and disable check boxes are
> grayed out! There is a check in the on box, but I can't disable it! This
> is nuts! Nowhere on the internet have a seen any evidence of this. Any
> suggestions are welcome. I even looked at the registry. The EnableFirewall
> value is set to 0, but not sure why the control panel is not allowing me
> to do anything!
>
> thanks,
>
> brian
>