Re: Sygate Pro and Windows XP

From: Casey (Casey_at_nosuch.net)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:39:29 GMT

In article <RAacd.148912$Np3.6424311@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>, vorticity77@hotmail.com says...
> Can anyone advise the following.....I have Win XP & Sygate Firewall Pro on
> same system:
>
> Question 1:
>
> Should I disable the WIN XP firewall? If so how?
>
> Question 2:
>
> When I create more than one profile, the Sygate icon in taskbar only appears
> on the profile initially loaded. Otherwise stated if I'm logged on to
> profile #1 and switch users, the icon is not in the taskbar for user #2. But
> if I switch back to #1 it reappears. Question is if user #2 is protected or
> not even if the icon is not present or do I have to install Sygate in user
> #2's profile as well?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Suggestion for question 2.
Run your computer in profile #1 and connect to several web pages.
Then run in profile #2 and connect to several different web pages.
Take a look at traffic log and see if both sets of pages are
listed. If both are listed then Sygate is functional on both
profiles.
Casey

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