REGKEY to disable the WINXP FIREWALL MENU

[Gadgetmind]

People of forum,

A friend of mine, told me that's possible with a REGKEY to disable the Windows Firewall Menu.

You can go to there by:

Start - Control Panel - Network Conections and Internet - Network Conection - Local Conection - Proprieties - Advanced

In the section ADVANCED you can enable and disable the firewall.

What I would like to know, is a REGKEY to make the ADVANCED section (Windows Firewall Menu) disappear.

Does anyone knows?!

I appreciate for some help, and I'll wait attentively for an answer from the experts as soon as possible!

Thank you!

Regards

[prathapml]

Hey, first from your "Run" dialog box, execute

gpedit.msc

(on WinXP pro, this tool is available directly - no 3rd party apps required).

If what you want is listed in the options of "gpedit", then it is possible to go ahead; otherwise I don't think it is possible. Have a *GOOD* look into gpedit, and if your desired option is listed there, post back on this thread - and we can make progress on this matter.

[Gadgetmind]

Thank you prathapml!

I'll get a look on the Menu you mentioned!

Kind Regards!

[Gadgetmind]

prathapml,

I didn't find yet the option to disable ADVANCED MENU of FIREWALL XP in the menu that you indicated.

Don't you think that exists a tweaker or a reg key to disable the menu?

Please give me some ideas to bypass this problem!

Thank you!

Regards

[maxXPsoft]

REGEDIT4
;Disables the are you sure

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\HomeNetworking\PersonalFirewall]
"ShowDisableFirewallWarning"=dword:00000001

;Turns off Internet Connection Firewall
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess]
"Start"=dword:00000003

Thats a service and may need reboot to get effect. Or simply at a command prompt, NET STOP SharedAccess

which returns this if off;

The Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) / Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service is not started.

I didn't PM ya cause I been gone offline a few days and seen this here first.

NOTE: Its a little different with SP2, still experimenting on that myself.

[maxXPsoft]

Ooops just re-read it and I see you want to disable getting there. K I have it and will look it up.

[maxXPsoft]

Ok bad news first, you aren't able to do that by reg except on same domain it was connected to.

MS Quote

These policy settings are location-aware. They apply only when a computer is connected to the same DNS domain network it was connected to when the policy setting was refreshed on that computer. If a computer is connected to a DNS domain network other than the one it was connected to when the policy setting was refreshed, the policy setting does not apply.

Only other method is to use above to enable or disable then set rerstriction on reg key by subinacl.exe to ADMIN only, that way it cannot be changed.

I do see that with SP2 there will more options like your looking for but thats untested as of yet.

[Gadgetmind]

maxXPsoft,

Thank you for your HINTS and TIPS.

I will see more carefully this curiosity... I think, that if I build a script... I can disable the MENU ADVANCED and the FIREWALL CONECTION.

Regards and many thanks, one more time!