xp sp2 firewall grayed out.

[BrianMultiLanguage]

I am not on a domain, home net work, admin on my machine, logged in as such.
And yet the firewall is grayed out.
I log in to pc with admin rights.
Since I can not turn it off, even with gpedit.msc, I can uninstall sp2.
Is there another option?
Thanks

[Malke]

BrianMultiLanguage wrote:

> I am not on a domain, home net work, admin on my machine, logged in as
> such. And yet the firewall is grayed out.
> I log in to pc with admin rights.
> Since I can not turn it off, even with gpedit.msc, I can uninstall
> sp2. Is there another option?
> Thanks

See if any of this information helps:

FIREWALL DEAD, or other network issues:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892350

MS antispyware tool disables Windows Firewall (or to reset firewall):
Start>Run cmd [enter]
netsh winsock reset catalog [enter]
Follow prompts and reboot.

Malke
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