Windows Firewall service terminated

[Guest]

No response from last Thursday, trying again...

Hello,
I have a winxp media center 2005 machine that had a lot of problems.
Badware etc.
I have corrected most of the troubles by rerunning sp2 and windows update.
Then ran some spyware and virus tools. It is all clean now.

The last 2 issues are that the windows firewall will not start.
It says the system cannot find the file specified.
Then after several minutes the browser service shuts down with a timeout
period expired message.

I don't have a media center edition setup disk.
I do have xp home sp2 setup and xp pro sp2 setup, can i run repair from one
of those?
Is there another way to repair these two services to default?
What files are required etc?

I have searched all over and not had much luck with this.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Phil

 

[Guest]

No response from last Thursday, trying again...

Hello,
I have a winxp media center 2005 machine that had a lot of problems.
Badware etc.
I have corrected most of the troubles by rerunning sp2 and windows update.
Then ran some spyware and virus tools. It is all clean now.

The last 2 issues are that the windows firewall will not start.
It says the system cannot find the file specified.
Then after several minutes the browser service shuts down with a timeout
period expired message.

I don't have a media center edition setup disk.
I do have xp home sp2 setup and xp pro sp2 setup, can i run repair from one
of those?
Is there another way to repair these two services to default?
What files are required etc?

I have searched all over and not had much luck with this.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Phil

Hi Phil,
Here is a link to the MVP Ramesh that explain your issue and the solution:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/resetfwpol.htm
Also here are some posts go through them :

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

You cannot start the Windows Firewall service in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892199

HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the response.
None of that helps, however.
I have searched all over and tried a lot of things to fix this.
Nothing is helping.
What about my question of running repair from one of the disks i have?

 

[Guest]

Yes you can, but try this First:
Open a Run Command and type in:
sfc /scannow click [OK] and wait for it to finish.
Back up your Data if the above didn't help and perform a Repair/ Install.
HTH.
Let us know.
Good luck.
nass

 

[Guest]

Thank you again,
I have run sfc a few times already.
Just to be clear,
I have Windows XP Media Center 2005 on the machine.
I do not have a setup disk for this version.
What functionality will change by running repair from an XP Pro sp2 setup
disk?
Or should I wait and try to find a media center install disk?

Yes you can, but try this First:
Open a Run Command and type in:
sfc /scannow click [OK] and wait for it to finish.
Back up your Data if the above didn't help and perform a Repair/ Install.
HTH.
Let us know.
Good luck.
nass

Thank you for the response.
None of that helps, however.
I have searched all over and tried a lot of things to fix this.
Nothing is helping.
What about my question of running repair from one of the disks i have?

 

[Guest]

Oh, My lord, Sorry I thought you have the Media CDs, no you can't Run a
repair from Either XP HD or XP Pro.
Yes you need to have Media centre 2005 CD to perform A Repair, you can get a
friend CD if She/He have the same version as yours.
HTH.
Regards,
nass

Thank you again,
I have run sfc a few times already.
Just to be clear,
I have Windows XP Media Center 2005 on the machine.
I do not have a setup disk for this version.
What functionality will change by running repair from an XP Pro sp2 setup
disk?
Or should I wait and try to find a media center install disk?

Yes you can, but try this First:
Open a Run Command and type in:
sfc /scannow click [OK] and wait for it to finish.
Back up your Data if the above didn't help and perform a Repair/ Install.
HTH.
Let us know.
Good luck.
nass

Thank you for the response.
None of that helps, however.
I have searched all over and tried a lot of things to fix this.
Nothing is helping.
What about my question of running repair from one of the disks i have?

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No response from last Thursday, trying again...

Hello,
I have a winxp media center 2005 machine that had a lot of problems.
Badware etc.
I have corrected most of the troubles by rerunning sp2 and windows update.
Then ran some spyware and virus tools. It is all clean now.

The last 2 issues are that the windows firewall will not start.
It says the system cannot find the file specified.
Then after several minutes the browser service shuts down with a timeout
period expired message.

I don't have a media center edition setup disk.
I do have xp home sp2 setup and xp pro sp2 setup, can i run repair from one
of those?
Is there another way to repair these two services to default?
What files are required etc?

I have searched all over and not had much luck with this.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Phil

Hi Phil,
Here is a link to the MVP Ramesh that explain your issue and the solution:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/resetfwpol.htm
Also here are some posts go through them :

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

You cannot start the Windows Firewall service in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892199

HTH.
Let us know.
Regards,
nass