Cannot Enable Firewall

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Hugh Mc Conville

The Network settings advanced tab has nothing in it to allow the
enabling of the firewall in WINXP. No box to check off only something
about going back to a previous recovery point since the some information
is not available. There is no restore point since I just reinstalled XPSP1.
I just completed an upgrade install of WINXP to WINXPSP1. Any hints on
what to try?
 
Sorry, Using WINXPSP1 pro. No Windows security center. Checked Security
permissions in Administrater area and can't find anything that may
apply. Should I disconnect the modem and let windows re-detect?

Ted said:
Start > Control Panel > Windows Security Center
Click to expand...

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Ted, Found This. Should work.

"Information might be corrupted' when you view network properties in
Windows XP".


In tips 7078 and 7080, I proposed methods of recovering from The Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) information might be corrupted when you
view network properties in Windows XP.

A simpler alternative, suggested by a reader, is:



1. Open a CMD.exe prompt.

2. Type the following, pressing Enter after each line:

net stop winmgmt
del /q %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem\Repository\FS\INDEX.BTR
del /q %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem\Repository\FS\OBJECTS.DATA

3. Shutdown and restart Windows XP.

4. Reconfigure ICS and ICF settings because step 2 causes them to be
reset to factory defaults.

OR

A frequent visitor proposes the following quicker / easier alternative:

1. Boot to the Recovery Console.

2. Navigate to the %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem\Repository\FS folder.

3. Delete the INDEX.BTR and OBJECTS.DATA files.

4. Exit the Recovery Console.

5. Start Windows XP normally.

6. Reconfigure ICS and ICF settings because step 3 causes them to be
reset to factory defaults.
 
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