Re: Cannot enable Windows XP Firewall

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 01/04/03 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:14:57 -0800

There are bogus messages from the Microsoft Baseline Security Analysis
virus that sometimes convince folks to disable the Remote Connection
Manager, which ICF/ICS depends on. I don't know whether this is due to
the program version or the XML file version. MBSA 1.1 doesn't report
this. 

-- 
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
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"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu> wrote in message 
news:#H8TFbAtCHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> "Garrett" <kilgore1@rcn.com> wrote in message
> news:404101c2b3a6$a1bb39a0$8bf82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA05...
> > I am having a problem enabling the Internet Connection
> > Firewall on Windows XP. It had been working fine until a
> > few days ago. I had disabled it for something else and
> > when I tried to re-enable it I got the following error
> > message:
> >
> > "An error occured while Iternet Connection Sharing was
> > being enabled.  The dependency service or group failed to
> > start."
> If you start / run
> services.msc
> locate and highlight ICF
> and then r-click into its properties
> you will find tab for the services dependencies.
> All (4) of the services listed as services ICF depends
> on must not be configured as disabled.
> On my system here these 4 are set to manual, but
> automatic would also work.
>
> --
> Roger Abell

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