Firewall

[Tom]

I get the following message: 'Windows cannot start
firewall/internet connection sharing service'. Any
solutions

 

[Guest]

I get the following message: 'Windows cannot start
firewall/internet connection sharing service'. Any
solutions

In admin tools>services right click on the firewall (ICF) and select
properties,click on the dependencies tab,All of these other services need to
be running for the firewall to work.
Or install a good third party firewall,here are links to some free ones.

Free Firewalls
ZoneAlarm (Free and up)
http://snipurl.com/6ohg

Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) (Free and up)
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html

Outpost Firewall from Agnitum (Free and up)
http://www.agnitum.com/download/

Sygate Personal Firewall (Free and up)
http://smb.sygate.com/buy/download_buy.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help.

In admin tools>services right click on the firewall (ICF) and select
properties,click on the dependencies tab,All of these other services need to
be running for the firewall to work.
Or install a good third party firewall,here are links to some free ones.

Free Firewalls
ZoneAlarm (Free and up)
http://snipurl.com/6ohg

Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) (Free and up)
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html

Outpost Firewall from Agnitum (Free and up)
http://www.agnitum.com/download/

Sygate Personal Firewall (Free and up)
http://smb.sygate.com/buy/download_buy.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion about turning on the firewall/internet connection
service. I did what you suggested, however, when I tried to ENABLE the
service, I got this error message:

Error 10047: An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used

I clearly have NO CLUE what this means--do you have any ideas for how to fix
this?

Thanks again for your help!

Mark

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Thanks for the suggestion about turning on the firewall/internet connection
service. I did what you suggested, however, when I tried to ENABLE the
service, I got this error message:

Error 10047: An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used

I clearly have NO CLUE what this means--do you have any ideas for how to fix
this?

Hi

See if registering the following DLLs helps:

From Start/Run, run the following commands:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\atl.dll

then

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\hnetcfg.dll
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netshell.dll
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netcfgx.dll
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\netman.dll

Then do a reboot.


If that didn't work, and you have Service Pack 2 for WinXP installed,
please try this (see further down for a non-SP2 fix):

Start/Run --> cmd.exe

and then, in the command prompt, type:

netsh.exe winsock reset

and hit Enter. Follow prompts and reboot.


If that doesn't cut it, or you don't have WinXP SP2, try this one:

http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

 

[Guest]

Torgeir,

"netsh.exe winsock reset" worked for me, thank you very much for the tip.