Hi David,

Thanks...I'll give it a try.

On thing that's strange on this Gateway, is that there's no
gpedit.msc. Some of the KBs say to control things from gpedit, but
when I type it on this machine, it says no service found. Is this
normal?

Mark

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:40:38 -0000, "David Parkes" <wibble@wobble.com>
wrote:

>The only way to turn it completely off is by:
>
>START --> RUN-- <Type>
>
>services.msc
>
>Scroll down to the bottom until you find windows firewall/internet
>connection sharing. Double click it. From the drop down menu select disable,
>stop it and then click apply.
>
>