I followed the steps provided, and they do reset the firewall setting through
Security center. However, options for changing firewall settings are still
gray, even when Security Center displays that it is on. Also, upon sequential
startups, firewall may/may not be sporadically turned on/off.

I am told that this might be due to Group Policy settings; unfortunately,
after perusing Group Policy help articles, I have been unable to change the
situation. What steps can I take to address this issue?

Looking forward to your reply

"ms_valsan" wrote:

> Plese perform the following:
>
> 1. Click on Start, Run.
> 2. Type "cmd" without quotes and press enter.
> 3. Type "netsh winsock reset" without quotes and press enter
> 4. Reboot the system.
>
> This should help.
>
> Sreevalsan
>
> "internet problems" wrote:
>
> > after i downloaded SP2 it disabled the function of turning off the windows
> > firewall .I wanted to know How do I turn it off.{the off button is gray and
> > not highlighted so i cant press it)

aus3987 wrote:
> I followed the steps provided, and they do reset the firewall setting through
> Security center. However, options for changing firewall settings are still
> gray, even when Security Center displays that it is on. Also, upon sequential
> startups, firewall may/may not be sporadically turned on/off.
>
> I am told that this might be due to Group Policy settings; unfortunately,
> after perusing Group Policy help articles, I have been unable to change the
> situation. What steps can I take to address this issue?
>
Hi,

One thing you can check:

Start regedit.exe (from Start/Run).

If you under the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dowsFirewall\DomainProfile\
and/or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dowsFirewall\StandardProfile\
find a registry value named EnableFirewall that is set to 0, set it
to 1 and reboot.

If those registry keys/values does not exist, the system will default
to the same as EnableFirewall set to 1.



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