By the way, keep track of what you change for future reference!!!

"John Smith" wrote:

> My daughter's HP pavilion ze1230 laptop came home from college. She
> primarily has been using desktop so the laptop has become mine. Trying to
> set it up for myself (with my preferences) but having trouble getting the
> win xp firewall on. It says the firewall is off because it's being
> controlled by group policy. I've navigated to control panel, administrative
> tools, services and it doesn't even give me an option to "start the service"
> ..
> If I go into control panel then "windows firewall" both options are greyed
> out. I can't turn it on or off. Under the general tab it states "for my
> safety, some settings are being controlled by group policy".
> I'd really like to get this turned back on since it's the only
> firewall on the machine.
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