No way to turn off my ICF

[T-Roy]

I have windows XP home edition on a dell 4550 with
included reinstallation CD oem installed in this system

I have no "advanced" tab under my Network Connections ,
Ive looked in every icon's properties, and I havent a
dialog box that has the firewall disable switch....hmmm
and I called up Dell, they dont know either...I followed
the directions to a tee at this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/using/howto/homene
t/icf.asp


theres a picture there that has 3 tabs, general,
authentication and Andvanced...I have no Advanced tab,
and Ive got Dell customer support scramblin all
over ,wonderin why I dont have one either

isnt that funny?

Well, Id like to have some way of disabling firewall that
XP provides, throw me some bones, Microsoft- maybe even a
way to remove it from registry would be fine because I do
not need it. If I want a software firewall, Ill get zone
alarm (I also have an external firewall router hooked up,
its working fine, but Id like a direct connection to my
router)

-T-Roy

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

Several things can hide the advanced tab

1. Not being admin
2. Group policy
3. TCP/IP not running
4. The adapter in question is the bridge or part of a bridge

--

Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"T-Roy" > wrote in message
...
> I have windows XP home edition on a dell 4550 with
> included reinstallation CD oem installed in this system
>
> I have no "advanced" tab under my Network Connections ,
> Ive looked in every icon's properties, and I havent a
> dialog box that has the firewall disable switch....hmmm
> and I called up Dell, they dont know either...I followed
> the directions to a tee at this page:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/using/howto/homene
> t/icf.asp
>
>
> theres a picture there that has 3 tabs, general,
> authentication and Andvanced...I have no Advanced tab,
> and Ive got Dell customer support scramblin all
> over ,wonderin why I dont have one either
>
> isnt that funny?
>
> Well, Id like to have some way of disabling firewall that
> XP provides, throw me some bones, Microsoft- maybe even a
> way to remove it from registry would be fine because I do
> not need it. If I want a software firewall, Ill get zone
> alarm (I also have an external firewall router hooked up,
> its working fine, but Id like a direct connection to my
> router)
>
> -T-Roy