Windows Firewall & Group Policy

[jane91]

Ive want to put Windows Firewall on my pc. At the moment its all greyed out and it says its because its group policy.

Anyone know how to change this?

[Savannah2]

I take you have XP Pro, check the Group Policy settings (Click Start - Run -

 

gpedit.msc). Expand Administrative Templates, then expand Network, then

 

Network Connections, then Windows Firewall, and click Standard Profile. Look

 

at "Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections", and ensure it's set

 

to "Not Configured". Double-click this settings, check Not Configured, and

 

then click "Apply" and then click "Ok".

 

 

 

EDIT: Just curious, why do you want to use the Windows firewall?

[jane91]

Ive just found a problem, My pc says Gpedit doesnt exist?

 

Ive always had Firewall from Windows before this started acting up.

[Savannah2]

Run>Regedit, Delete these keys if they exist:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall

\DomainProfile \EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall

\StandardProfile \EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

 

 

If you are not sure about editing the registry, then I would recommend you download a free firewall.

The Windows firewall isn't up to much TBH.

[Ghozer]

gpedit.msc doesnt exist?? Could be that your on XP Home, and not XP Pro..

[Ann*]

As Savannah says, Windows Firewall isn't much cop.

 

I recommend you download a firewall from this list. Everything in the list has been recommended, tried and tested by SF users.