Error 1075 while setting up firewall in WinXP SP2

I installed SP2 on my Windows XP installation. I am not able to set up
the fire wall on my machine. When I click on the windows firewall icon
in the control panel I get a message saying that Internet connection
sharing service is not started and it tries to start the service bit
fails. I went to services and tried to start the service manually and
get this error " Could not start the Windos firewall/Internet
connection sharing service on hte local computer Error 1075: The
dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion"
Please help me fix this problem

There are two main issues we see causing this error:

One is a permissions/security setting issue - so we need ot run the following at a command
prompt just to be su

1. Click Start, click Run, type "cmd" (without the quotation marks),
and then press ENTER.

2. Type "secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db
secsetup.sdb /verbose" (without the quotation marks), and then press
ENTER. You receive a "Task is completed" message, and a warning message
that something could not be done. You can safely ignore this message.
For more information about this message, view the
%windir%\Security\Logs\Scesrv.log file.


The second issue is that a third party product changed the dependsonservice in the registry
for the firewall.

Open regedit and drill down to:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAcces s

When you click on the SharedAccess folder, on the right there is a dependsonservice. The
Data for that entry should only be Netman or RPcss (ok if WinMgmt is there but nothing else
should be there) and either Netman or RPcss MST be there.

One of the above should resolve your issue for you.

HTH,
Gary

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