I wonder is it actually turned on anyway? By which I mean maybe the WPF
service is disabled. If not, without solving the question of why it's
'greyed out', you could perhaps stop the Windows Firewall running by setting
the service to disabled then rebooting - that is unless you can't for the
same reason it's greyed out.

Otherwise I'd suggest booting to Safe Mode and trying.


Shane

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"AllenM" <allen.miyake@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>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.
>