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by ozi eagle

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Hi,
I have a client who has two XP pro machines networked. They upgraded to SP2 - a can of worms, now mostly resolved. However, one point that is causing major hassles is that when they turn on their machines in the morning they don't network. Tracked this down to the windows firewall not being started - OK started the firewall and all works. Set the firewall service from manual start to auto start, applied etc. Then shutdown both computers and restarted, everything fine.
Next morning the same situation of the network not starting, the firewall again not started and had returned to MANUAL start.

Is this the restore function kicking in and will a create restore point fix?

Thanks, in advance.

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by bfilmfan

You do not have to have the firewall active to network XP, unless you have some GPO enforcing that.

I don't think that is a restore issue. How are these machines getting their IP addresses?

by ozi eagle

Thanks,
The firewall does not need to run, but the firewall service does, as it also incorporates the internet sharing (and possibly other network functions). My problem is that after manually starting the service, setting it from manual to auto start, the next day it is back to manual start. I was wondering if this is the restore going back to the "original" setting.

by rindi1

Possible... Turn it off, do your adjustments and reboot. If it stays OK, you can turn system restore back on and it shouldn't revert back to your original setting.

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