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hello, i had 2 computers on my home network, on a work group working fine, now one of them shows the windows firewall with the OFF checked and it is uncheckable, and the network no longer has access to this machine, a message says not enough privileges, i don't know how to un-check this and i don't know what group policy it refers to anyone help please thanks ..M

Name: guapo
Date: October 23, 2008 at 05:56:55 Pacific

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Set an administrator password in the control panel, login as administrator and you should be able to make the changes. Start, run, compmgmt.msc press enter. Go to local users and groups. users, highlight administrator, click action and set password.

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hi, thanks for the response, an administrator account without a password cannot un-check these firewall options? thanks ..M

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