windows firewall cannot be acessed

[Guest]

when i go to windows firewall in control panel a message comes up stating
due to
unidentified problem , windows cannot display firewall settings. just
happened why?
Terry

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem. My firewall is turned off and I can't turn it
back on...also my automatic update keeps turning itself off. If anyone can
explain this I would be grateful.

 

[Joe Wright]

when i go to windows firewall in control panel a message comes up stating
due to
unidentified problem , windows cannot display firewall settings. just
happened why?
Terry

In another post, torgeir suggested:

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, please try this:

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.

If the above didn't help, see if this one works:

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