How to uninstall or remove ICS?

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I share an Internet connection amoung three home pc's
(98SE,95 and XP). My problems started with XP. I use a
LinKsys router to share my connection. It works fine most
of the time, but overnight ICS on the XP/Home Edition
seems to start up even though I have it disabled. It locks
up all pc's from accessing the Internet and prevents file
and printer sharing to work. To get things working again I
have to power off/on the Linksys and reboot XP. Works for
awhile then repeats. I can see traffic running on the
Zonealarm display and on the router so something in XP is
causing the traffic. Any ideas? Thanks.
 
Open up the service control manager (services.msc) and set teh "Shared
Access" service to "Disabled". Note that this will also prevent ICF
(Internet Connection Firewall) from working as well.
 
Thanks, but I don't see this name in the list of Services.
I found an article to disable 'Ccmputer Browser' Is this
the same thing? ANother mistery. SOmething changed my IP
address on XP form my DHCP setting of 192.168.1.100 (AS
set by the Linksys) to 169.254.178.35 subnet 255.255.0.0.
Do I have an intruder?
 
When the system is working fine after a reset all I see in
Network Connections is one entry for 'Lan or High Speed
Internet'. Then 5-10 minutes later, another network
called ' Internet Gateway' is activated with the
comment 'Internet Connection' I then see mysterious steady
traffic on it that Zonealarm reports as 'Generic Host
Process for win32' and it seems that program svchost.exe
is doing it. The traffic is in/out through the Linksys.
Once when it quit working my IP address on the XP system
was changed to 169.254.178.35 with a subnet of
255.255.0.0.. Weird stuff!! I ran a virus checker and
ADAWARE from lavasoft and all it found was a register
entry for ALEXA that I removed.
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How are you determining that ICS is starting?
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SharedAccess is the service name, but "Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) /
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" is the display name that shows up in the
list.

The IP address change, just means you aren't getting an IP address from your
router. Check the connections.
 
The Internet Gateway icon is representing your router, not ICS. The icon
gets info from your router, and that is the svchost traffic.
 
Thanks. That helps me a lot. I'm not sure why there's so
much traffic from the router to SVCHOST.EXE It is
coming/going to/from the LINKSYS router at 192.168.1.1
-----Original Message-----
The Internet Gateway icon is representing your router, not ICS. The icon
gets info from your router, and that is the svchost traffic.

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When the system is working fine after a reset all I see in
Network Connections is one entry for 'Lan or High Speed
Internet'. Then 5-10 minutes later, another network
called ' Internet Gateway' is activated with the
comment 'Internet Connection' I then see mysterious steady
traffic on it that Zonealarm reports as 'Generic Host
Process for win32' and it seems that program svchost.exe
is doing it. The traffic is in/out through the Linksys.
Once when it quit working my IP address on the XP system
was changed to 169.254.178.35 with a subnet of
255.255.0.0.. Weird stuff!! I ran a virus checker and
ADAWARE from lavasoft and all it found was a register
entry for ALEXA that I removed. and
confers no rights.
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If you are showing the Internet Gateway icon in the notification area (next
to the clock) that can create a lot of traffic from gathering statistics.

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
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Ron Mills said:
Thanks. That helps me a lot. I'm not sure why there's so
much traffic from the router to SVCHOST.EXE It is
coming/going to/from the LINKSYS router at 192.168.1.1
-----Original Message-----
The Internet Gateway icon is representing your router, not ICS. The icon
gets info from your router, and that is the svchost traffic.

--

Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


When the system is working fine after a reset all I see in
Network Connections is one entry for 'Lan or High Speed
Internet'. Then 5-10 minutes later, another network
called ' Internet Gateway' is activated with the
comment 'Internet Connection' I then see mysterious steady
traffic on it that Zonealarm reports as 'Generic Host
Process for win32' and it seems that program svchost.exe
is doing it. The traffic is in/out through the Linksys.
Once when it quit working my IP address on the XP system
was changed to 169.254.178.35 with a subnet of
255.255.0.0.. Weird stuff!! I ran a virus checker and
ADAWARE from lavasoft and all it found was a register
entry for ALEXA that I removed.
-----Original Message-----
How are you determining that ICS is starting?

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
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Ooops, thanks Ken.

On your machine that has 'lost' its address, open a command box and type:

"ipconfig /renew" and see if you get a new address.

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Ken Wickes said:
SharedAccess is the service name, but "Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) /
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" is the display name that shows up in the
list.

The IP address change, just means you aren't getting an IP address from your
router. Check the connections.

--

Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


Ron said:
Thanks, but I don't see this name in the list of Services.
I found an article to disable 'Ccmputer Browser' Is this
the same thing? ANother mistery. SOmething changed my IP
address on XP form my DHCP setting of 192.168.1.100 (AS
set by the Linksys) to 169.254.178.35 subnet 255.255.0.0.
Do I have an intruder?
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That seems to be the answer. I disabled the Internet
Gateway Connection and all mysterious traffic stopped and
everything is working fine now. You mean I could just
uncheck the box that says 'Show Icon on task bar' instead?
I'm curious to know why everything is working and the
Internet Gateway Connection is disabled.
 
I did mean to uncheck the "show icon on task bar". I would think that if
you disable the internet gateway connection then you wouldn't be able to
connect to the internet.
 
Thanks a lot Ken. You are right. Unchecking the 'Show
Icon on taskbar' stopped all the mysterious traffic. My
Internet Connection now shows enabled. I also upgraded
the code on the Linksys BEFSR41 (V2) to the latest code
1.45.7 which seemed to help a few other things (IE the
speed to the router showed 3.2 MB on the old code and now
it shows 100MB like it should. We can close my problem.
-----Original Message-----
I did mean to uncheck the "show icon on task bar". I would think that if
you disable the internet gateway connection then you wouldn't be able to
connect to the internet.

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


That seems to be the answer. I disabled the Internet
Gateway Connection and all mysterious traffic stopped and
everything is working fine now. You mean I could just
uncheck the box that says 'Show Icon on task bar' instead?
I'm curious to know why everything is working and the
Internet Gateway Connection is disabled.
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