Firewall will not allow me to disable it

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Long story short, I ran some malware by mistake and it deleted several XP
(SP2) files. I was able to fix almost everything via microsoft.com, but now
the windows firewall will not allow me to make any changes via the security
center. I get the following error message: "Due to an unidentified problem,
Windows cannot display Windows Firewall Settings."

Any suggestions?
 
I would look at a re-install of the OS, who knows what else might be trashed
or malconfigured

Vincent Lape
 
Kieran75 said:
Long story short, I ran some malware by mistake and it deleted several
XP
(SP2) files. I was able to fix almost everything via microsoft.com,
but now the windows firewall will not allow me to make any changes via
the security
center. I get the following error message: "Due to an unidentified
problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall Settings."

Any suggestions?

"Due to an unidentified problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall
settings" error, try:
Start>Run regsvr32 hnetcfg.dll [enter]

Malke
 
Kieran75 said:
Long story short, I ran some malware by mistake and it deleted several XP
(SP2) files. I was able to fix almost everything via microsoft.com, but now
the windows firewall will not allow me to make any changes via the security
center. I get the following error message: "Due to an unidentified problem,
Windows cannot display Windows Firewall Settings."

Any suggestions?
Hi,

See if registering the following DLLs helps:

From Start/Run, run the following commands:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\ATL.DLL

then

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\HNETCFG.DLL
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\NETSHELL.DLL
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\NETCFGX.DLL
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\NETMAN.DLL

Then do a reboot.


If that didn't work, please try this:


Please try this:

Start/Run --> cmd.exe

and then, in the command prompt that opened up, type:

netsh.exe winsock reset

and hit Enter. Follow prompts and reboot.


After resetting winsock you should re-install any applications which
are layered service providers (lsp). typical apps of this nature are
firewalls and anti-virus/anti-spyware.


If the above didn't help, see if this one works:

"Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings" error while
accessing Firewall settings in Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/sharedaccess.htm
 
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