I am having trouble turning off the windows firewall., Due To Unidentified Problem Windows Cannot Display Windows Firewall Settings . please someone help.

thanks,

Do you have any other firewall? What firewalls do you have?

I had the same problem. I did this...

1. Rebuild the Winsock LSP chain. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Log on to the Microsoft Windows XP workstation as an administrator.

b. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.

c. At the command prompt, type the following, and then press ENTER:

netsh Winsock reset

When the program is finished, you will receive the following message:

Successfully reset the Winsock Catalog. You must restart the machine in order to complete the reset.

If you receive this message, go to step 1d.

If you are not logged in as an administrator, you will receive the following error message:

Unable to reset the Winsock Catalog. Access is denied.

If you receive this message, log off the computer, and then log back on by using an account with Administrator access. Typically, the first user account that was created has Administrator access.

Then, repeat steps 1b and 1c.

d. Restart your computer.

2. Test each of your third-party programs that are known to use LSPs.

3. Reinstall any malfunctioning third-party programs that are known to use LSPs

Hopefully that'll work for you. (I did all this so I could turn off the firewall so I could connect to limewire - i did turn off the firewall, but I still can't get connected - good luck)

duck11

If you provide a little more info we might be able to solve your problem.

Can you give us a total desciption of your set up:
1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98)
2. What firewalls you have?
3. How much ram?
4. Hard Disk space available?
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
9. Who is your isp provider?
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
11. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there?
These details are vital if you want us to find out what your connection problem is.

* Did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other. http://www.limewire.com/english/content/firewalls.shtml

12. Do This test, Is the result True/False?
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...757#post103757 Is the result True/False?

Thanks for taking the time to write this out Lord.

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