XP Home Firewall

[Rickey]

Hi,
I'm working(constantly) on one of my old computers I gave
to a friend. I found that the firewall disabled. It's for
DSL. Every time I try to enable it, a error window pops
up tell me "An error occured while Internet Connection
Sharing was being enable. The dependency service or group
falied to start". I try to use the Set Up Wizard and it
also fails. I failed to write down the failure. Am I
missing something. Thanks

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

The exact error message might help - can you call your friend & ask them to
try this & read the exact error to you over the phone?

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I'm working(constantly) on one of my old computers I gave
to a friend. I found that the firewall disabled. It's for
DSL. Every time I try to enable it, a error window pops
up tell me "An error occured while Internet Connection
Sharing was being enable. The dependency service or group
falied to start". I try to use the Set Up Wizard and it
also fails. I failed to write down the failure. Am I
missing something. Thanks

Are there any relevant messages in Event Viewer? To run it, type
"eventvwr.msc" in the Start | Run box, click OK, and look for System
messages about failed services. For more information, see:

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308427

Then, check the dependencies of the ICF/ICS service and see if any of
those services aren't running:

1. Type "services.msc" in the Start | Run box and click OK.

2. Scroll down the list of services.

3. Double click ICF/ICS.

4. Click Dependencies and note the names of the services.

5. Double click each service in the list and see if the service is
started.

6. If it isn't, click Start.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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