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For your security some settings are controlled by group policy
I am running XP SP3 Home on 2 computers on a wireless network router.
When I go to Control Panel and select Windows Firewall I have a banner across the top "For your security some settings are controlled by group policy". I used Regedit to delete "EnableFirewall", after I reboot I still get the same banner. I can turn the Firewall on and off in One Care. I removed and reinstalled One Care 3 times, still no change, so I called support, after 2 days and 5 hours of sharing my computer with them they could not remove the banner. One Care support told me to contact the XP support. I am worn out. |
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For your security some settings are controlled by group policy
On Sep 30, 11:19*am, Nodsirrah
wrote: I am running XP SP3 Home on 2 computers on a wireless network router. When I *go to Control Panel and select Windows Firewall *I have a banner across the top "For your security some settings are controlled by group policy". I used Regedit to delete "EnableFirewall", after I reboot I still get the same banner. I can turn the Firewall on and off in One Care. I removed and reinstalled One Care 3 times, still no change, so I called support, after 2 days and 5 hours of sharing my computer with them they could not remove the banner. One Care support told me to contact the XP support. I am worn out. The message just means that there are other Windows Firewall settings in the Group Policy settings. "...some settings.." is the operative phrase in the message. Maybe it should say "...some other settings if you are interested or think you might need them..." The GP default settings are generally fine for home use, but there are many articles to read. Instead of just mentioning that with nowhere to read (don't you hate that) here is a good starting point: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb490626.aspx |
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For your security some settings are controlled by group policy
"Jose" wrote: On Sep 30, 11:19 am, Nodsirrah wrote: I am running XP SP3 Home on 2 computers on a wireless network router. When I go to Control Panel and select Windows Firewall I have a banner across the top "For your security some settings are controlled by group policy". I used Regedit to delete "EnableFirewall", after I reboot I still get the same banner. I can turn the Firewall on and off in One Care. I removed and reinstalled One Care 3 times, still no change, so I called support, after 2 days and 5 hours of sharing my computer with them they could not remove the banner. One Care support told me to contact the XP support. I am worn out. The message just means that there are other Windows Firewall settings in the Group Policy settings. "...some settings.." is the operative phrase in the message. Maybe it should say "...some other settings if you are interested or think you might need them..." The GP default settings are generally fine for home use, but there are many articles to read. Instead of just mentioning that with nowhere to read (don't you hate that) here is a good starting point: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb490626.aspx Thanks Jose, The problem is I get no response when I run "mmc". Rebooting just restarts the computer, I have no choice of logging in as Administrator or anything. I am the Administrator. |
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For your security some settings are controlled by group policy
On Oct 1, 6:40*am, Nodsirrah
wrote: "Jose" wrote: On Sep 30, 11:19 am, Nodsirrah wrote: I am running XP SP3 Home on 2 computers on a wireless network router. When I *go to Control Panel and select Windows Firewall *I have a banner across the top "For your security some settings are controlled by group policy". I used Regedit to delete "EnableFirewall", after I reboot I still get the same banner. I can turn the Firewall on and off in One Care. I removed and reinstalled One Care 3 times, still no change, so I called support, after 2 days and 5 hours of sharing my computer with them they could not remove the banner. One Care support told me to contact the XP support. I am worn out. The message just means that there are other Windows Firewall settings in the Group Policy settings. "...some settings.." is the operative phrase in the message. *Maybe it should say "...some other settings if you are interested or think you might need them..." The GP default settings are generally fine for home use, but there are many articles to read. Instead of just mentioning that with nowhere to read (don't you hate that) here is a good starting point: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb490626.aspx Thanks Jose, The problem is I get no response when I run "mmc". Rebooting just restarts the computer, I have no choice of logging in as Administrator or anything. I am the Administrator. I have XP Pro, looked around and could not find a way to leave the firewall enabled and a the same time get rid of just that string of text at the top of the settings screen. If you do some Google searching, you can find people with XP Home, that talk about it, but I never found a post that says I got rid of the message and my firewall still works. They mention some registry deletes that don't exist on my system and their methods don't make a lot of sense - I think they are not sure what they are doing, they are just trying stuff. I do not have a machine I can just start trying things and I don't want to disable my firewall or break it experimenting to get rid of a message that understand completely, but don't care about. It is an informative message and not an error, or I would fix it. I am not sure what "no response" means when you run mmc, and gpedit is not in Home (I forgot you were running Home), but you can download a third party policy editor so you don't have to tinker with the registry to get the same effect. Doug Knox has one he http://www.dougknox.com/ I don't want to download/install it because I have no use for it and it doesn't look like it will make the informative message disappear. I looked in my gpedit and all the firewall settings are not configured by default, but the informative message still shows up. Maybe some other folks have better ideas. |
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