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XP Firewall
Name: Steve Date: June 8, 2002 at 17:18:38 Pacific
Comment:
Recently set up an XP machine, Office 2000 and Zone Alarm...
Having problems running Outlook thru my DSL and getting email, however, Outlook Express works ok...AFter I removed ZA, everything seemed to settle down ok and Outlook as well as OE worked ok...
Question, I would prefer ZA as my firewall, so how do I disable XP firewall???
Name: MattC Date: June 8, 2002 at 17:21:29 Pacific
Reply:
just go to Nstart>network connections>double click the connection Icon> properties>advanced and uncheck the firewall box!
Let us know the outcome!
MattC
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Response Number 2
Name: mikeO Date: June 8, 2002 at 19:23:47 Pacific
Reply:
That "connection" would be the one to your NIC.
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Response Number 3
Name: cable_guy92 Date: June 8, 2002 at 21:54:58 Pacific
Reply:
I use both XP's firewall and Zone Alarm and everything works just fine. The problem is elsewhere....
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Response Number 4
Name: Steve Date: June 9, 2002 at 06:31:37 Pacific
Reply:
Thanx MattC...good help... Cableguy...you may be right, it's possible it's one of the services I have turned on/off in ZA...we'll keep looking...
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Response Number 5
Name: robert451 Date: June 9, 2002 at 09:01:19 Pacific
Reply:
I run za pro with xp firewall with no problems either.Also have a bunch of services disabled.Chech google for xp services,there are a few good websites with info on each service.
Summary: I'm using the free ZA firewall and have the windows firewall unchecked in ZA. I have SP2. I'd like to turn Xp firewall back on but every time I go to network connections settings and cliclk properties...
Summary: the XP firewall is disabled by default. otherwise go to: CONTROL PANEL NETWORK CONNECTIONS right click on your internet service PROPERTIES ADVANCED tab take the check out of the box ...
Summary: Do you have to set up xp firewall or is it automatic as i cant seem to see anything to do with it ..also i use zone alarm pro would i be able to use the 2 of them ..is the built in one as good as the ...
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