WINDOWS FIREWALL!!!

[Guest]

Everytime I click windows firewall, the error message comes up saying
"Windows cannot start the Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
service". I have tried everything listed in the article about it in support
section of microsoft.com but that did not work. Does anyone know what I can
do about this?

 

[Guest]

I'm watching your question with interest, I get "Due to an unidentified
problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings"

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I'm watching your question with interest, I get "Due to an unidentified
problem, Windows cannot display Windows Firewall settings"

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