Saturday, February 9, 2013

Due to an unidentified problem, windows cannot display the windows firewall settings

Method 1

To fix this problem, two dlls need to be re-registered:

First: Click Start -> Run, Then type

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\atl.dll
and hit OK

Second:
regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\hnetcfg.dll
and Hit OK

This should allow for the viewing and configuration of the XP firewall settings.

Method 2 

1. Click Start
2. Control Panel
3. Windows Firewall
4. Select "Off (not recommended)"

Alternatively, from the command prompt,
To turn it off type: netsh firewall opmode disable

To turn it on type: netsh firewall opmode enable

Method 3

To install Windows Firewall, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
2. At the command prompt, type the following command line, and then press ENTER:
Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection Ndi-Steelhead 132 %windir%\inf\netrass.inf
3. Restart Windows,
4. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
5. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
Netsh firewall reset
6. Click Start, click Run, type firewall.cpl, and then press ENTER. In the Windows Firewall dialog box, click On (recommended), and then click OK.     



    

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