Windows can't display firewall settings

[Guest]

I have installed SP2 and Nortons AV2005. Now when I try to open the firewall
settings I get the message "Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot
display firewall settings." ALso I cant access this PC from the network, it
can see & access other PC's and other PC's can see it but get the message
"\\<name> not accessible you may not have permissions...

Inthe past setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\Lsa
Value name: RestrictAnonymous
Value type: DWORD value to zero has helped but not this time

any help appreciated

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I have installed SP2 and Nortons AV2005. Now when I try to open the firewall
settings I get the message "Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot
display firewall settings."

Please try this:

Start/Run --> cmd.exe

and then, in the command prompt that opened up, type:

netsh.exe winsock reset

and hit Enter. Follow prompts and reboot.


After resetting winsock you should re-install any applications which
are layered service providers (lsp). typical apps of this nature are
firewalls and anti-virus/anti-spyware.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

In addition to Torgeir's advice,

"Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings" error while accessing
Firewall settings in Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/sharedaccess.htm