Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

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re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Don — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:18:01 GMT

This action of enabeling the FW service after it has been specifically disabeled by GP has some serious effects! Any news gathering agency that uses AP's ENPS newsroom application will be stoppewd dead by installation of SP3. Since ENPS uses udp to communicate with it's server and the firewall, by default blocks udp packets, this is a serious issue and needs to be addressed by MS ASAP. The process of re-enabeling services specifically disabeled by GP has got to stop. The SP should specifically check GP for services before taking any action.

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Tim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:46:11 GMT

Hi Don,

I think there is a misconception here. Setting the Windows Firewall service to Automatic startup does not turn the Windows Firewall on if you have set the firewall to be turned off via Group Policy. The only way application of the Service Pack would cause the blocking of traffic would be if you disabled the service via GPO settings rather than turning the firewall off via GPO. If the service itself was disabled by policy for some reason, it would again be disabled with the next refresh of Group Policy following SP3 application.

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Mike — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:40:31 GMT

I installed XP SP3 on a older laptop (IBM T20) I use as a "shared drive", other clients lost coneectivity. I had to disable the firewall completely to access the shared drive. Prior to installing XP SP3 the firewall was enabled.

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Scott Hamilton — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:21:58 GMT

We have multiple XP SP3 machines we have attempted to setup with ICS and defined Service with Port translations to the LAN 192.168.0.XX - none have operated after setting these up inaccordance with every known MS tech support site we have seen.

We assume the forwarding featuer is disabled in SP3 adn there is a secret place to enable it again. My email is scotth@raiinc.com if you wish to enlighten us.

WINDOWS FIREWALL\INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING

KARAN — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:06:45 GMT

my pc is on the network. while working some time my pc stop accesing the other pc's. when i open my windows firewall seting a message appear "Windows firewall settings cannot be displayed because the associated service is not running.Do you want to start the windows firewall/internet connection sharing (ICS) service?"

Option Yes/No.

If I clicked on "yes",another message pops up saying:

"Windows cannot start the windows firewall/internet connection sharing (ICS) service."

but after restart my pc start access to other some time it is stopped working. i have formatted my windows xp professional 2 times but it is not solved. please help me it is very urgent for me if u have any reply send me on my id (karan.luthra5004@gmail.com) thanx.

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Rob — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:45:07 GMT

we applied sp3 on a few machines in my environment and after applying it we could no longer remote manage those devices. Access to the admin shares were no longer available, remote computer manage is no longer available, even our enterprise tool couldn't connect. Running the following command somehat fixed our issue. The command is in single quote 'sc config "SharedAccess" start= Disabled' Note-must have space after equal sign.

I found this article from Microsoft which will also fix the issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892199

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

David — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:35:56 GMT

This has screwed up my entire network printers, Computers, faxing. You name it is has lagged my computer or just fails to function. I WANT THIS FIREWALL TURNED OFF NOW. HOW DO I DO IT

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

naik mushtaq — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:48:08 GMT

iwant to off windows firewall in windows xp sp3

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Tim — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:09:12 GMT

To date we have had no confirmed instances where the Microsoft firewall service itself conflicts with any other service. If you find that enabling these security services does cause specific compatibility issues in your environment, please provide us with details of the problems seen and we will investigate further to address the issues encountered. Please visit the link below to learn more about working with Microsoft Enterprise Support:

http://www.microsoft.com/services/microsoftservices/srv_enterprise.mspx

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Veronica — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:10:17 GMT

I am on XP PRO, and after a recent automatic update, the Windows Firewall is preventing me from using browsers. I can't turn it off, and when I talked to my service providers, I verified that I am connected. The weird think is that my mail service works - it is not accessed via browser.

How can I turn this off or fix it so that I can use the internet again?

re: Windows Firewall service starts automatically after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3

Derek — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:37 GMT

GPO applied to OU where computers accounts are contained:

Setting:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Network Connections > Windows Firewall > Domain Profile > Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections > Disable