Firewall won't turn on

[Guest]

User had XP sp1, I turned on the firewall. Then I downloaded and installed
sp2. Now the firewall is off, and Windows says it can't turn it on.

NAV 2004, Lavasoft AdAware, and SpyBot S&D do not find anything that would
block XP Firewall from being turned on. Does anybody have any ideas?

Thank you!
Bruce

 

[Juan]

Check your ICF Service is enabled also look at the following page to check
for Winsock2 corruption according to instructions on the page.
Start\Run\type; services.msc and look for the firewall service.

How to determine and recover from Winsock2 corruption

(811259) - Discusses how to determine if the Winsock2 registry key is
corrupted when you receive the following error message: "An operation was
attempted on something that is not a socket."

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811259