Cannot turn ON XP Firewall

I recently uninstalled Norton AntiVirus and am now getting a Security Alert
(No Firewall is running) each time I boot up. I've followed the recommended
steps, but the window for clicking "ON (Recommended)" is non-responsive.
I've tried "START, RUN, cmd, netsh winsock reset" which tells me I was
successfull, and "START, RUN, Firewall.cpl" which takes me back to the
non-responsive "ON (Recommended)" again. I suppose I turned the Windows
Firewall OFF really well when I installed SP2, so okay...how do I turn the
sucker back on now?

Go to Start Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Under the General tab, check "Normal Startup - load all device drivers and services",
click "apply" and reboot.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"gin_jammer" wrote:

| I recently uninstalled Norton AntiVirus and am now getting a Security Alert
| (No Firewall is running) each time I boot up. I've followed the recommended
| steps, but the window for clicking "ON (Recommended)" is non-responsive.
| I've tried "START, RUN, cmd, netsh winsock reset" which tells me I was
| successfull, and "START, RUN, Firewall.cpl" which takes me back to the
| non-responsive "ON (Recommended)" again. I suppose I turned the Windows
| Firewall OFF really well when I installed SP2, so okay...how do I turn the
| sucker back on now?

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as suggested (twice), but am still unable
to click "ON (Recommended)". More ideas?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

Go to Start Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Under the General tab, check "Normal Startup - load all device drivers and services",
click "apply" and reboot.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"gin_jammer" wrote:

| I recently uninstalled Norton AntiVirus and am now getting a Security Alert
| (No Firewall is running) each time I boot up. I've followed the recommended
| steps, but the window for clicking "ON (Recommended)" is non-responsive.
| I've tried "START, RUN, cmd, netsh winsock reset" which tells me I was
| successfull, and "START, RUN, Firewall.cpl" which takes me back to the
| non-responsive "ON (Recommended)" again. I suppose I turned the Windows
| Firewall OFF really well when I installed SP2, so okay...how do I turn the
| sucker back on now?

i'm having some of the same problem but when i go to launch my brouser's like
explorer or foxfire my firewall crashes an i have dump zone alarm an tryied a
different firewall an the same thing happen to it . i have down loaded all
the current updates from microsoft an still no luck i have been in my
computer off the net an most of the files that should be in their folders are
deleted my xp pro has not been the same the only thing i can think to do is
to dump my system or go to restore but though i would ask some body an now my
windows firewall will not launch an the fire wall i was useing is deleted but
windows security center is still showing it running but my add remove program
shows it removed an its not in the recycle bin. can you please tell me what
to do?

"gin_jammer" wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. I did as suggested (twice), but am still unable
to click "ON (Recommended)". More ideas?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

Go to Start Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Under the General tab, check "Normal Startup - load all device drivers and services",
click "apply" and reboot.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"gin_jammer" wrote:

| I recently uninstalled Norton AntiVirus and am now getting a Security Alert
| (No Firewall is running) each time I boot up. I've followed the recommended
| steps, but the window for clicking "ON (Recommended)" is non-responsive.
| I've tried "START, RUN, cmd, netsh winsock reset" which tells me I was
| successfull, and "START, RUN, Firewall.cpl" which takes me back to the
| non-responsive "ON (Recommended)" again. I suppose I turned the Windows
| Firewall OFF really well when I installed SP2, so okay...how do I turn the
| sucker back on now?