[Nocturnal]

I have a computer that has WinXP Home with SP2 on it. Basically I removed some spyware or virus which messed with the registry setting for the Windows Firewall. Now when I go to the firewall settings, enable and disable are both greyed out. I can manually turn on and off the firewall through the registry settings however I can’t seem to fix this problem with both boxes being greyed out. It says something like it is being managed by a group policy but the thing is, there is no group policy within WinXP Home.

I’m dying trying to figure out what the [bleep] is going on and how to fix this problem without formatting the computer.

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Have you tried logging in as administrator to change the firewall settings, and do you have any other software firewall running?

[h1ppy]

Have you tried logging in as administrator to change the firewall settings, and do you have any other software firewall running?

[gerryf]

start > run
regedit
enter

navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

anything in there sound like a firewall setting?

[Nocturnal]

Yes there are a bunch of stuff in the Policies area.

[Nocturnal]

For future reference what I had to do was delete these two keys from the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile

Those two keys are not needed for Windows XP Home.

[gerryf]

ahh, thanks for the update....sorry I never got back to you and it looks like you found the proper settings.