Cannot open Windows Firewall

[Guest]

I am having problems accessing some web pages, and during investigating the
cause found that i cannot open Windows Firewall. I get the message "Due to
unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings".
I am running XP SP2 Home Edition with IE6, and have Norton AntiVirus, Spybot
and Ad-Aware loaded. Cannot find anything in these programmes that 'lock'
Firewall access, and have used these programmes, and others such as
Hijackthis, to verfiy i do not have any viruses on the PC.

Have tried booting in Safe mode, but got same results.

Any ideas about this?

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Try posting in an XP newsgroup such as the one for home security. This is a
Windows 2000 newsgroup. The link below may be of help.

Steve

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/sharedaccess.htm

 

[Guest]

Steven,
Thanks for pointing me to the right group and your link was indeed helpful.
Followed the guidance and have restored firewall access.