Vista Firewall

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I have just upgraded my Acer notebook from XP Pro to Vista Business now every
time I reboot I have to start Vista Firewall Manually. I cant find a setting
to change to make sure it loads at boot time rather than me loading it
manually. Any help on this problem?.
Thanks
 
karen said:
I have just upgraded my Acer notebook from XP Pro to Vista Business now every
time I reboot I have to start Vista Firewall Manually. I cant find a setting
to change to make sure it loads at boot time rather than me loading it
manually. Any help on this problem?.
Thanks
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The only time it usually disables itself is when there is a 3rd party
firewall installed.
Check the security centre.
 
Unfortunatly that is not the problem as this as this is a new notebook and
the only firewall that has run on this notebook is XP firewall so I guess I
will keep looking for a solution thanks anyway.
Karen
 
When I purchased the notebook some 3 weeks ago Norton was installed. The
first thing I did was uninstall Norton and have been running on Xp Pro since
then using XP Pro firewall and 2 days ago I upgraded to Vista Business as was
recommened by Acer, Not a clean install. There is no sign of Norton still
running anything either under XP Pro or Vista Business. Do you think Norton
has left something and that is causing the problem if so what is the best
solution.
Thanks Karen
 
Further to what I just said every time I reboot the security notifcation pops
up and tells me there is no firewall runing and allows me to start Vista
firewall manually hope this helps a bit more.
Thanks Karen
 
Anybody
Thanks Karen

karen said:
Further to what I just said every time I reboot the security notifcation pops
up and tells me there is no firewall runing and allows me to start Vista
firewall manually hope this helps a bit more.
Thanks Karen
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karen said:
Anybody
Thanks Karen
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My laptop came with vista home premium pre-installed & Norton pre-installed.
I nuked it & installed a clean copy of Vista I bought.
I'd rather buy a new copy than use a machine that Norton has been
installed on.

I always recommend clean installs, not upgrades if you can, you tend to
get less of this type of thing occuring.
 
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