Windows Firewall & Automatic Updates

[RJM]

Help!!!!

Problem #1: I am running XP Pro and have tried to setup "Turn On Automatic
Updates"...I click apply and all is fine. However, as soon as I shut down
and re-start the computer, the setting goes back to "Turn Off Automatic
Updates"....Any ideas?

Problem #2: I go to turn on Windows Firewall and it is always grayed
out....it does give me a message initially saying that a service needs to be
started/enabled (ICSI???) and do I want to start up the service? I say yes,
but the Windows Firewall settings remain grayed out. Again, any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi RJM,

For the Windows Firewall part, read below:

From Start/Run, type Gpedit.msc and navigate to:

Computer Configuration
=> Administrative Templates
=> System
=> Network
=> Network Connections
=> Windows Firewall
=> Standard Profile

Set the following options to "Not Configured" (defaults)

Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections
Windows Firewall: Do not allow exceptions
Windows Firewall: Define program exceptions
Windows Firewall: Allow local program exceptions
Windows Firewall: Allow remote administration exception
Windows Firewall: Allow file and printer sharing exception
Windows Firewall: Allow ICMP exceptions
Windows Firewall: Allow Remote Desktop exception
Windows Firewall: Allow UPnP framework exception
Windows Firewall: Prohibit notifications
Windows Firewall: Allow logging
Windows Firewall: Prohibit unicast response to multicast or broadcast
requests
Windows Firewall: Define port exceptions
Windows Firewall: Allow local port exceptions