Greetings Gil and Lew, I came across the same thing a while back and found out that the problem is within the group policies editor. It was on a machine that I was fixing for one of the gentlemen at Jim Barnard Chevy, but I didn't use the procedure to fix it because it was a situation where it required he 2 hour rule where if it takes more than 2 hours to make significant progress to just dump the machine and reformat.
In order to get into the Group Policies Editor follow the instructions below. Links to the articles will follow. "To access the Windows Firewall Group Policy settings, open either a local machine policy (run gpedit.msc on a workstation) or a GPO stored in a domain. Expand Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Network, Network Connections, Windows Firewall." http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/47381/47381.html Then two articles by M$ http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/flash/tips/tips_083105.mspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457149.aspx Let me know if that helps, Mike Wohlrab On Feb 16, 2008 12:38 AM, Gil Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Advanced ... the ability to click either on or off is grayed out. > > Any ideas? > > Funny thing happened to me along the same lies Friday. My wife's XP Pro > SP2 > PC at her office startd giving some grief. Turns out it is no longer > honoring the way we set it up to advise of M$ updates, but requires us to > fire off the installation. It is now installing on its own upon her > rebooting or shutting down.. Even when logged in as administrator I can't > change the M$ Update settings, they are all grayed out. The only person > who uses her PC is her, and she knows to not make any setup changes (she > really is good with computer systems in her own right). My paranoid and > suspicious sodes tell me a recent M$ update is responsible for taking away > our ability to determine what the PC's behavior ought to be like, but > until > Lew's eMail to ProFox I thought it must just be a fluke. Like Lew, I am > open for suggestions. > > Gil > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lew > > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:49 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: OT: Windows Firewall Mess > > > > > > Among other woes, I can now no longer enable Windows Firewall > > through control panel -> network connections -> > > Advanced ... the ability to click either on or off is grayed out. > > Any ideas? > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
