firewall setup error XP Home

[tapdraw]

When I attempt to activate the firewall within XP Home
Edition I get the following error message:
"the dependency service or group failed to start"

I don't know what to do next?

Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[phoenix]

When I attempt to activate the firewall within XP Home
Edition I get the following error message:
"the dependency service or group failed to start"

I don't know what to do next?

Any suggestions? Thanks.

IIRC one of the causes was a problem with installing SP1 then doing a
restore to a state prior to SP1. Try re-installing SP1 then activate ICF
again and see if that helps.

Regards

Bill

 

[David Beder [MSFT]]

currently the firewall (and ics) depends on a handful of other services. if
any one of them refuses to start, the firewall can't start.
check the status of the following services and if any of them are off,
attempt to turn them on, then see if you can get the firewall to start.
Application Layer Gateway
Network Connections
Network Location Awareness
Remote Access Connection Manager

to check the state of a service, right-click My computer and select Manage.
At the bottom of the resulting dialog will be a node for Services and
Applications under which is a Services option.

Post back as to whether or not this was the cause of your problem and if you
were able to fix it. Typically all of these services are happy starting when
asked, so we'd like to track down the cause and investigate any potential
interop issues.
thanks

 

[Guest]

I also can not activate my XP firewall although in previous times I had no problem with it. Initially, I tried to restore the firewall function by restoring the system to a previous period, but that process would not work either. When activating the firewall, I get the "dependency service group failed to start" message. As was suggested I checked the service group "Remote Access Connection Mgr" and it was off. When I atemped to start it, the process failed, and gave an error code 5 message. I am at a loss with this....