Cannot Disable Firewall in XP Home

[Ken]

When I try to disable the internet firewall in XP Home,
nothing happens. I have followed the directions from the
Microsoft Knowledge Base to the letter, but nothing
happens. I logged on as an administrator, I highlighted
the connection then clicked on the 'Change settings"
button but nothing happened. I also tried right clicking
the connection to get the properties box but that was a no
go as well. Any ideas on why this is happening, or what I
can do to disable the firewall?

 

[Tony]

-----Original Message-----
When I try to disable the internet firewall in XP Home,
nothing happens. I have followed the directions from the
Microsoft Knowledge Base to the letter, but nothing
happens. I logged on as an administrator, I highlighted
the connection then clicked on the 'Change settings"
button but nothing happened. I also tried right clicking
the connection to get the properties box but that was a no
go as well. Any ideas on why this is happening, or what I
can do to disable the firewall?
.
Can't You just go to your Dial up connections and click

properties then click advanced and uncheck the box that
says firewall? Make sure you click okay when done.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What kind of connection do you have? If you're dealing with a
proprietary connectoid, such as those provided by AOL, MSN, NetZero,
or another service designed for the "uninformed" computer user, you
very probably cannot change any settings, to include enabling the ICF.
Of course, if you have such a connection, your built-in firewall is
_not_ enabled.


Bruce Chambers

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[Ken]

Can't You just go to your Dial up connections and click

properties then click advanced and uncheck the box that
says firewall? Make sure you click okay when done.

I've tried that. It doesn't work.

 

[Ken]

I think you hit the nail on the head. I use AOL and it
was hard to enable ICF in the first place. I could not do
it manually and resorted to an automatic enable that I
found on the microsoft website. Then I had all sorts of
problems with AOL and thought it might be related to ICF.
That is why I was trying to disable it. Finally, I
reinstalled AOL and that process disabled ICF. Everything
runs fine now.