I can't turn off the windows firewall, it is compromising an installation and
i need it off, although the settings for the firewall report it is off, on
the security centre screen it reports it is on as always. When no other
firewall i have purchased is active the installation will still fail as a
firewall with incorrect settings is stopping it, that firewall is
microsoft's. I would like it off. Regular methods have failed. Does anyone
know how to turn it off?

From: "gibbers" <gibbers@discussions.microsoft.com>

| I can't turn off the windows firewall, it is compromising an installation and
| i need it off, although the settings for the firewall report it is off, on
| the security centre screen it reports it is on as always. When no other
| firewall i have purchased is active the installation will still fail as a
| firewall with incorrect settings is stopping it, that firewall is
| microsoft's. I would like it off. Regular methods have failed. Does anyone
| know how to turn it off?

Open a command prompt and type...

sc stop SharedAccess
sc config SharedAccess start= disabled

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Are you absolutely sure the Windows Security Center shows that exactly
WINDOWS FIREWALL is ON.Windows Security center informs you for ANY firewall
turned ON.

It is unlike a firewall will prevent an install of a software of a good
software on a stand-alone computer.

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"gibbers" wrote:

> I can't turn off the windows firewall, it is compromising an installation and
> i need it off, although the settings for the firewall report it is off, on
> the security centre screen it reports it is on as always. When no other
> firewall i have purchased is active the installation will still fail as a
> firewall with incorrect settings is stopping it, that firewall is
> microsoft's. I would like it off. Regular methods have failed. Does anyone
> know how to turn it off?