Re: Remove Firewall

Did you try booting into Safe Mode with networking to see if that works.
What are the symptoms of the problem? Nothing happens, access denied
message?? Make sure you are logged on as an administrator. You can use the
command net localgroup administrators to see what users are
dministrators. --- Steve


"BevH" <BevH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3C9B1CB5-DB89-44C3-B4CD-885DA827D070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> You were right - it didn't help. I even uninstalled Norton. Do you have
> any
> other suggestions? Is there anything else in windows that may be blocking
> this? This function used to work.
>
> "Steven L Umbach" wrote:
>
>> I tend to doubt it is the Windows Firewall if it is disabled. but to be
>> sure
>> you could user services.msc and set Windows Firewall service to disable
>> and
>> stop it while logged on as an administrator. You also might try booting
>> into
>> Safe Mode with Networking to see if that works but you should not do that
>> or
>> disable the Windows Firewall unless you have an internet router or
>> firewall
>> device protecting your network as your computer can be
>> compromised/infected
>> very quickly if connected to the internet without any firewall
>> rotection. --- Steve
>>
>>
>> "BevH" <BevH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:E8FDCCB7-95E8-43CB-AD13-E0870BF10CEA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I beleive the Windows XP firewall is blocking upgrade downloads for my
>> > accounting software, even though the firewall is turned off. I have
>> > worked
>> > with the software company and my dsl provider - both agree that the
>> > firewall
>> > must be blocking the download. Problem started after installing SP2.
>>
>>
>>


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