I am an administrator of both local machine and domain.

"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
news:1dednV_fqbRFjCHenZ2dnUVZ_t2dnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> You must have administrator privileges to turn the firewall off.
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> -Frank
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> "AllenM" <allen.miyake@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ONr8JoVEGHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>I have an application that is giving me problems with the install. It is
>>recommended by the manufacturer to turn off all anti virus and Windows
>>Firewall before installing. When I open my Windows Firewall settings the
>>option to turn off Windows Firewall is greyed out as well as the defualt
>>"on" selection which obviously I cannot change either. Why is that and how
>>do I go about turning off Windows Firewall so that I may install this
>>application.
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