No way to turn off my ICF

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T-Roy

I have windows XP home edition on a dell 4550 with
included reinstallation CD oem installed in this system

I have no "advanced" tab under my Network Connections ,
Ive looked in every icon's properties, and I havent a
dialog box that has the firewall disable switch....hmmm
and I called up Dell, they dont know either...I followed
the directions to a tee at this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/using/howto/homene
t/icf.asp


theres a picture there that has 3 tabs, general,
authentication and Andvanced...I have no Advanced tab,
and Ive got Dell customer support scramblin all
over ,wonderin why I dont have one either

isnt that funny?

Well, Id like to have some way of disabling firewall that
XP provides, throw me some bones, Microsoft- maybe even a
way to remove it from registry would be fine because I do
not need it. If I want a software firewall, Ill get zone
alarm (I also have an external firewall router hooked up,
its working fine, but Id like a direct connection to my
router)

-T-Roy
 
Several things can hide the advanced tab

1. Not being admin
2. Group policy
3. TCP/IP not running
4. The adapter in question is the bridge or part of a bridge
 
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