Disable or enable File sharing for XP though regedit

[Sugada]

Windows 9x had this registry trick. Is there one for XP?

Appearently the following doesn't work for XP.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network]
"NoFileSharing"=dword:00000000
"NoPrintSharing"=dword:00000000

Thanks, John

 

[zarkon4]

Here is a vbscript to do what you want to do


Turn on sharing and firewall

Option Explicit

Dim objShell
Dim fwMgr
Dim profile
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
If objShell.IsServiceRunning("SharedAccess") = False Then
'SharedAccess is not running so turn it on
objShell.ServiceStart "SharedAccess", True
wscript.sleep 1000
End If

Set fwMgr = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set profile = fwMgr.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile

If profile.FirewallEnabled = False Then
'Firewall disabled so enable it
profile.FirewallEnabled = True
End If


Turn off sharing and firewall

Option Explicit

Dim objShell
Dim fwMgr
Dim profile
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
If objShell.IsServiceRunning("SharedAccess") = True Then
'SharedAccess is running so turn it off
objShell.ServiceStart "SharedAccess", False
wscript.sleep 1000
End If

Set fwMgr = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")
Set profile = fwMgr.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile

If profile.FirewallEnabled = True Then
'Firewall enabled so disable it
profile.FirewallEnabled = False
End If

Note that this works only when user is administrator
so if the user isn't an admin then you will have to utilize
RunAs functionality.