Microsoft Windows XP Enable Firewall Procedure

NOTE: By enabling the firewall on your computer you will not be able to share any kind of files, folders or printers to any other computers. However, you will still be able to connect to file and printer shares on other computers. If you would like to have Windows XP's firewall enabled on designated computers and still share files and folders, "holes" can be inserted into the firewall to allow this. See Microsoft Knowledge base article Q298804, or contact the help desk at 4-7193, support@me.gatech.edu, for assistance.

1) Click Start

2) Right Click on My Network Place and then click on Properties

3) Right Click on LAN or High –Speed Internet and then click on Properties

4) When this window appears click on Advanced

5) Check on Internet Connection Firewall box and go to settings.

6) When the Advance settings window comes up click on ICMP.

7) Check these two boxes “Allow in coming echo request” and “Allow outgoing

destination unreachable” and then click ok. These are enabled for diagnostic purposes.

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8) Click ok again on this window.

9) Now at the Network Connection window you will see “enabled, Firewalled”

which means you have enabled firewall on your computer