Missing Firewall icon

[Guest PageMaker]

Hello,

I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

Thanks,

--

Dennis

[Guest poatt]

RE: Missing Firewall icon

 

I am answering because I have not seen any other answers to this.

I am useing a 3rd party Firewall. And the icon on system tray dissapeared.

After running "Spybot and AdAware to no avail. I cleared all TIFs and at

reboot the icon came back. There must have been something attached to a

cookie or sort that hid the firewall access. Don't really know if this would

cause the onboard firewall onXP to vanish but you may try this.

 

"PageMaker" wrote:

> Hello,

> I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

> other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

> online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

> restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

> Thanks,

> --

> Dennis

[Guest glee]

Re: Missing Firewall icon

 

Restore missing icons to the Windows Security Center

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/seccentericons.htm

--

Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

http://dts-l.org/

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

 

 

"PageMaker" <PageMaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:41AF74A3-FFE5-48E8-B6DB-44705EDC9C2A@microsoft.com...

> Hello,

> I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

> other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

> online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

> restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

> Thanks,

> --

> Dennis

[Guest Elmo]

Re: Missing Firewall icon

 

PageMaker wrote:

> Hello,

> I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

> other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

> online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

> restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

> Thanks,

 

Open Security Center, click "Change the way Security Center alerts me"

and make sure "Firewall" is checked.

 

--

Joe =o)

[Guest PageMaker]

Re: Missing Firewall icon

 

That's the program I did try that did nothing but thanks for responding!

--

Dennis

 

 

"glee" wrote:

> Restore missing icons to the Windows Security Center

> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/seccentericons.htm

> --

> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

> http://dts-l.org/

> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

>

>

> "PageMaker" <PageMaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:41AF74A3-FFE5-48E8-B6DB-44705EDC9C2A@microsoft.com...

> > Hello,

> > I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

> > other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

> > online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

> > restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

> > Thanks,

> > --

> > Dennis

>

>

[Guest PageMaker]

Re: Missing Firewall icon

 

I think this may do it. I will try it at my client's and let you know. Thanks

for the heads up.

--

Dennis

 

 

"Elmo" wrote:

> PageMaker wrote:

> > Hello,

> > I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

> > other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

> > online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

> > restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

> > Thanks,

>

> Open Security Center, click "Change the way Security Center alerts me"

> and make sure "Firewall" is checked.

>

> --

> Joe =o)

>

[Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Re: Missing Firewall icon

 

Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe

Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load

 

Delete the value named "firewall.cpl" if found.

 

Close Regedit.exe

 

--

Regards,

 

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

 

 

"PageMaker" <PageMaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:358BFEA5-DFD6-4E56-941B-13F1DA3730DA@microsoft.com...

That's the program I did try that did nothing but thanks for responding!

--

Dennis

 

 

"glee" wrote:

> Restore missing icons to the Windows Security Center

> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/seccentericons.htm

> --

> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

> http://dts-l.org/

> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

>

>

> "PageMaker" <PageMaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:41AF74A3-FFE5-48E8-B6DB-44705EDC9C2A@microsoft.com...

> > Hello,

> > I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

> > other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

> > online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

> > restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

> > Thanks,

> > --

> > Dennis

>

>

[Guest glee]

Re: Missing Firewall icon

 

Let us know, please, as I kind of doubt it.

Unchecking an option there has not removed it from Security Center on machines where

I have tested it, but it's worth a try.

 

See Ramesh's reply elsewhere in this thread.

--

Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

http://dts-l.org/

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

 

 

"PageMaker" <PageMaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:457DB03F-3F17-472B-95A3-2B97823D8329@microsoft.com...

>I think this may do it. I will try it at my client's and let you know. Thanks

> for the heads up.

> --

> Dennis

>

>

> "Elmo" wrote:

>

>> PageMaker wrote:

>> > Hello,

>> > I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

>> > other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

>> > online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

>> > restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

>> > Thanks,

>>

>> Open Security Center, click "Change the way Security Center alerts me"

>> and make sure "Firewall" is checked.

>>

>> --

>> Joe =o)

>>

[Guest PageMaker]

Re: Missing Firewall icon

 

Indeed, that did not work. Thank you all for your suggestions but nothing has

done it. In case I didn't make myself clear I will run through this again:

The firewall works. Everything fuctions as it should. All registry entries

that I can find are there and normal. Firewall.cpl is alive and living at

Windows\system32 as it should. I can access the firewall through 'Start; Run;

firewall.cpl' and make any and all changes I want. The ONLY glitch in all

this is that the icon/link that is normally found in the 'Security Center' is

gone. The other 2 are there. The program mentioned in the above post did not

fix this issue. In fact, when I first ran it, it took out ALL of the

icon/links in 'Security Center'. When I ran it again I checked all 3 boxes

and the icon/links came back - except for the Firewall.

 

So, I am still baffled as I have never seen anything like this that can't be

fixed simply. Thanks again for all of your help and if you think of anything

else - that would be great!

 

Dennis

--

Dennis

 

 

"glee" wrote:

> Let us know, please, as I kind of doubt it.

> Unchecking an option there has not removed it from Security Center on machines where

> I have tested it, but it's worth a try.

>

> See Ramesh's reply elsewhere in this thread.

> --

> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+

> http://dts-l.org/

> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

>

>

> "PageMaker" <PageMaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:457DB03F-3F17-472B-95A3-2B97823D8329@microsoft.com...

> >I think this may do it. I will try it at my client's and let you know. Thanks

> > for the heads up.

> > --

> > Dennis

> >

> >

> > "Elmo" wrote:

> >

> >> PageMaker wrote:

> >> > Hello,

> >> > I have a client who is missing the Firewall link in Security Center. The

> >> > other two are in place and firewall.cpl works fine from run. I've tried the

> >> > online utility from, I believe, secsecurity but that doesn't work. How do I

> >> > restore the icon and link for the Windows Firewall in Security Center?

> >> > Thanks,

> >>

> >> Open Security Center, click "Change the way Security Center alerts me"

> >> and make sure "Firewall" is checked.

> >>

> >> --

> >> Joe =o)

> >>

>

>