Missing Firewall icon

[Guest]

Hello,
I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The
other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the
online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I
restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?
Thanks,

 

[Guest]

I am answering because I have not seen any other answers to this.
I am useing a 3rd party Firewall. And the icon on system tray dissapeared.
After running "Spybot and AdAware to no avail. I cleared all TIFs and at
reboot the icon came back. There must have been something attached to a
cookie or sort that hid the firewall access. Don't really know if this would
cause the onboard firewall onXP to vanish but you may try this.

 

[glee]

Restore missing icons to the Windows Security Center
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/seccentericons.htm

 

[Elmo]

Hello,
I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The
other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the
online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I
restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?
Thanks,

Open Security Center, click "Change the way Security Center alerts me"
and make sure "Firewall" is checked.

 

[Guest]

That's the program I did try that did nothing but thanks for responding!

 

[Guest]

I think this may do it. I will try it at my client's and let you know. Thanks
for the heads up.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load

Delete the value named "firewall.cpl" if found.

Close Regedit.exe

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Regards,

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


That's the program I did try that did nothing but thanks for responding!

 

[glee]

Let us know, please, as I kind of doubt it.
Unchecking an option there has not removed it from Security Center on machines where
I have tested it, but it's worth a try.

See Ramesh's reply elsewhere in this thread.

 

[Guest]

Indeed, that did not work. Thank you all for your suggestions but nothing has
done it. In case I didn't make myself clear I will run through this again:
The firewall works. Everything fuctions as it should. All registry entries
that I can find are there and normal. Firewall.cpl is alive and living at
Windows\system32 as it should. I can access the firewall through 'Start; Run;
firewall.cpl' and make any and all changes I want. The ONLY glitch in all
this is that the icon/link that is normally found in the 'Security Center' is
gone. The other 2 are there. The program mentioned in the above post did not
fix this issue. In fact, when I first ran it, it took out ALL of the
icon/links in 'Security Center'. When I ran it again I checked all 3 boxes
and the icon/links came back - except for the Firewall.

So, I am still baffled as I have never seen anything like this that can't be
fixed simply. Thanks again for all of your help and if you think of anything
else - that would be great!

Dennis