just did all that to a T and i get the same result as the poster. the last thing that i think i saw in the crawler say was launching library or something like that. i am running defender pro, but no firewall that i know of on it. i did however have the firewall icon showing when i did have it working. any input on why that icon was up and where i might go to find out if i do infact have a firewall that i can't find running from defender...already looked everywhere in the program.