Firewall issue on sp2

[nperisa]

i am having an issue where on the exceptions tab of the windows
firewall, the add programs button is greyed out meaning i am unable to
add programs to the exceptions list. Has anybody got any suggestions on
how to rectify this?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

This may be due to a Group Policy setting. See section "Configuring Windows
Firewall Group Policy" in the following article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875357
Windows Firewall: Define program exceptions

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


i am having an issue where on the exceptions tab of the windows
firewall, the add programs button is greyed out meaning i am unable to
add programs to the exceptions list. Has anybody got any suggestions on
how to rectify this?

 

[nperisa]

unfortunately that doesnt fix my issue. No group policy is running on
the machine. Any other ideas? Would installing sp2 have any detrimental
effects?
i dont suppose there is anyway to just re-install the sp2 firewall by
itself?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

No group policy is running on the machine

Policies can be enabled through the registry, as well. You may try Method 1
here.

Windows Firewall options are grayed out:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/resetfwpol.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


unfortunately that doesnt fix my issue. No group policy is running on
the machine. Any other ideas? Would installing sp2 have any detrimental
effects?
i dont suppose there is anyway to just re-install the sp2 firewall by
itself?