Let me back up: While I installed MS Office 2003 days before this all took place, and the last updates occurred several days before as well, uninstalling MS Office 2003 made a world of difference. In fact, if I can get everything else working correctly, I'm going back to my original configuration -- which, although the company strongly suggests not to do it, worked great for eight months before this.
Anyway, I got a copy of ZoneAlarm Pro and I've had nothing but troubles with it. While I know it's a solid firewall providing me excellent protection, it doesn't matter how many times I check the little dialogue boxes, it always asks me to confirm every, little action. I'm pretty sure there's a setting somewhere in the morass what is ZoneAlarm Pro that would settle this, I don't have time for all that. So I decided to switch back to Windows Firewall.
If only it were that easy!
It kept telling me it couldn't start. I found my way to the Windows Firewall control panel, which told me Firewall was not using the recommended settings. But when I pressed that, it gave me another error. That was when I remembered Services! But, just to be sure, I did a quick search. Sure enough, forums were filled with users complaining of the same issue but there were no direct solutions (though a few did offhandedly mention the service must not be started).
If you come across this issue, follow these steps:
- All Programs -> Accessories -> Administrative Tools -> Services
- Windows Firewall
- Change it to either Automatic or Manual
- Start the service (upper left column)
Services are an entire post unto themselves and will be covered in the future.
© C Harris Lynn, 2009
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