Domain, AD, 40 plus computers. Group policy is used for a handfull of policies.
issue:
on my computer i noticed that microsoft firewall sometimes is set to ON, so i go in
to the registry and change it back to off, since i can not change the firewall settings in the controll panel because it is greyed out. we have a firewall on our router so i don’t
want MS firewall to be ON. is there a group policy that sets the firewall to
off? if so, where is it, i can not seem to find that. if not, why would the
firewall settings be grayed out and i can not change it on my computer (yes
it is the same on the compuers that i have looked at—firewall is OFF
however it is grayed out).
second issue:
I had a screen saver on my computer (custom screen saver), yesterday morning the
screen saver has changed to one of MS, when i go into control
panel/display/screen saver i can not change it, it is also grayed out. i
looked in the registery file and also group policy both on the domain and on
local computer and can not find anything that would let me make the changes.
I know it is user specific since I logged in as Admin on my computer and i was able to make the changes in the control panel. log in as myself and i can not make changes.
with all that said i ran Windows defender, Ad-Aware Pro, Spybot S&D and our antivirus software–the system is clean.
i am running Windows XP Pro SP2 and all patches are up to date.
Thanks,