hello,
I've tried to disable the windows xp firewall with the radio button,
but the secutity center tells me that the firewall is still active!

Any idea?

many thanks in advance for any hint.

deekee wrote:

> hello,
> I've tried to disable the windows xp firewall with the radio button,
> but the secutity center tells me that the firewall is still active!
>
> Any idea?
>
> many thanks in advance for any hint.

Open Security Center. If you have a third-party firewall installed (or
av software that comes with "Internet Worm Protection" like NAV), WF
will be disabled but the "button" will be green and say "On". Then when
you click the double-arrow button to the right it will show you what
firewall is running instead of WF.

If this isn't the case, post back with what firewall protection you do
have.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Thanks,
well I've already deactivated NAV and WF but still showing that its
activ!

:-) Dirk

deekee wrote:

> hello,
> I've tried to disable the windows xp firewall with the radio button,
> but the secutity center tells me that the firewall is still active!
>
> Any idea?
>
> many thanks in advance for any hint.
>

Copy and paste the following text below the ************** into notepad,
save from notepad as a *.reg file (such as fwoff.reg), double click the
*.reg file, answer Yes and Ok, then reboot. It should completely disble
the Windows firewall and notification of it at startup.

Steve N.

**************
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"FirewallOverride"=dword:00000001
"FirewallDisableNotify"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Win dowsFirewall\StandardProfile]

"EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Win dowsFirewall\DomainProfile]

"EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000

Thanks Steve,
did what you told me...

There was no notification at startup and the firewall ist still shown
as active in the security center.

But the it has been greyed-out in the firewall security settings

Any idea?

;-) Dirk

Why do you want to turn off MS FW, if you have none in its place?

"deekee" wrote:

> Thanks,
> well I've already deactivated NAV and WF but still showing that its
> activ!
>
> :-) Dirk
>
>

deekee wrote:

> Thanks Steve,
> did what you told me...
>
> There was no notification at startup and the firewall ist still shown
> as active in the security center.

Might be a glitch in Security Center. Not sure. I'll have to look into
it further.

>
> But the it has been greyed-out in the firewall security settings
>
> Any idea?
>
> ;-) Dirk
>

I have seen a few cases where the reg file needed to be merged again and
a couple of hard reboots for it to really take effect, and a few other
cases where that sucker just will not turn off no matter what you do.
Why, I don't know, except I do know that the SP2 firewall does its
damndest to be active at boot-time. The reg file I gave usually kills
the boot-time security FW settings, but not always. Don't know why. Was
just something to try. You can easily reverse it by deleteing the keys
it set in regedit if you so desire and persue it otherwise.

Are you using some other software firewall on the machine? If so perhaps
Security Center is telling you that _it_ is active.

Steve N.

Dixonian69 wrote:

> Why do you want to turn off MS FW, if you have none in its place?

We don't know that he has no other FW in place or not, nor why he wants
it off. I know of several scenarios I deal with at work where such is
necessary, though.

Steve N.

>
> "deekee" wrote:
>
>
>>Thanks,
>>well I've already deactivated NAV and WF but still showing that its
>>activ!
>>
>>:-) Dirk
>>
>>

The person said "well I've already deactivated NAV and ..."

So it seems unlikely, there is another one running!!

"Steve N." wrote:

> Dixonian69 wrote:
>
> > Why do you want to turn off MS FW, if you have none in its place?
>
> We don't know that he has no other FW in place or not, nor why he wants
> it off. I know of several scenarios I deal with at work where such is
> necessary, though.
>
> Steve N.
>
> >
> > "deekee" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Thanks,
> >>well I've already deactivated NAV and WF but still showing that its
> >>activ!
> >>
> >>:-) Dirk
> >>
> >>
>
>

Look at this and see if it helps!!
Troubleshooting Windows Firewall settings in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default...1201211201 20

"deekee" wrote:

> Thanks Steve,
> did what you told me...
>
> There was no notification at startup and the firewall ist still shown
> as active in the security center.
>
> But the it has been greyed-out in the firewall security settings
>
> Any idea?
>
> ;-) Dirk
>
>