Windows Firewall Issue.

[kjspear]

Hello everyone,

I've recently upgraded my Win Xp pro SP1 to Win Xp Pro Sp2, finally. Everything worked fine for a week. But now the Windows Firewall is not working (Disabled.) I tried to open it in the Control Panel but receive the following 'Windows Firewall - settings cannot be displayed becaus associated service is not running. (Internet Connection Sharing ICS services.')

I went into services to start it. It starts for a few seconds then stops. The path reads ' c:\\windows\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs.' I did restart netservices and remote procedure call, which are the services associated with this, then restarted Windows Firewall service. I receive this error;

'Could not start the windows firewall/Internet Connection Sharing ICS service on local computer.

Error 0x80004015:Class is configured to run as a security id different from the caller.'

I'm currently using Spysweeper with Antivirus from Webroot, which I disabled to see if that will correct the problem. But it doesn't. Any suggestions?

Thank you,
KJ

 

[linney]

This sounds like it might solve your problem, I hope so anyway.

You cannot start the Windows Firewall service in Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;892199#appliesto