Re: Unable to view firewall settings

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 08/17/05 

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:53:35 +0200

Jer wrote:

> No, I'm someone else with the same problem. I tried to take
> your advice and look at the two register entries,
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\
> and/or
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile\
> find a registry value named EnableFirewall that is set to 0,
> set it to1 and reboot.but I did not see these two entries anywhere.
> I even did a searchregistery for 'WindowsFirewall'throughout the entire
> registery and nothing came up, thus my questionabout the entries
>
Hi,

I was not clear about this in my post about those registry
keys/values, but normally those keys/values does not exist,
and then the system will default to the same as EnableFirewall
set to 1. 

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