Group Policy on XP Home

[Guest]

I have features disabled in my automatic updates and Windows firewall by the
group policy. I am the computer admin, am not on a network and don't have
access to group policy. Can someone tell me whats going on?

 

[Trax]

|>I have features disabled in my automatic updates and Windows firewall by the
|>group policy. I am the computer admin, am not on a network and don't have
|>access to group policy. Can someone tell me whats going on?

GPEDIT.MSC isn't supplied on the home version - the only NT version
that it doesn't.

 

[Guest]

LOL, its sad that I get that, but that still dosn't help.

 

[Guest]

Can I get gpedit.msc for XP home to fix the problem?

 

[Trax]

|>Can I get gpedit.msc for XP home to fix the problem?

I've always been curious myself; No you can't.

I dual boot Home and Pro, I just copied gpedit.* over and all I get is
an CLSID error.

You might need these files http://tinyurl.com/9e6ml but I'm done
testing at this end

 

[bumtracks]

what features are you not authorized to change ?
can you change them with a safe/boot user = Administrator login.?
If you don't have a password on your user/admin account add one, if I
recall there were a few things not accessible until I passworded a xpsp2
slipstreamed install. Now its asking me to turn on iis service so I can
unreg an asp.module,,,, iis is a pain in the neck even when you don't have
it installed.

 

[Guest]

I have a password, I cannot disable the firewall, or enable automatic updates.

 

[bumtracks]

microsoft just frowned on my laptop and could not do windows updates....
said check & make Services Automatic for ;
Auto Updates
BITS
Event Logging

had put the AutoUpdates service to manual ,,, which apparently stopped BiTs,
whom was the actual culprit .


Windows Firewall/ICS Looks like it has no dependents here under services &
turns on/off instantly. Maybe you could temp disable the service for
Security Center then turn off firewall.

 

[Guest]

Interesting stuff.

I've been trying to set up file and printer sharing at home with XP Home
SP2. Two of the three PC's I'm setting up are sharing without any trouble.
The third has just started with the group policy message in Windows Firewall.
I, too, wonder how this happens with XP Home.

I did a system restore to a point earlier than the "group policy" change but
it had no impact.

How do you disable service for Security Center?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Reset the Windows Firewall Policy settings to defaults:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/resetfwpol.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com


Interesting stuff.

I've been trying to set up file and printer sharing at home with XP Home
SP2. Two of the three PC's I'm setting up are sharing without any trouble.
The third has just started with the group policy message in Windows
Firewall.
I, too, wonder how this happens with XP Home.

I did a system restore to a point earlier than the "group policy" change but
it had no impact.

How do you disable service for Security Center?