There was this problem i have encountered with the firewall setting of one pc i am supporting. It is a Microsoft Windows XP machine. The problem of the PC is that, it cannot print to the network printer and cannot access shared drives. Upon checking the services, the windows firewall services has been disabled and i tried to enable it but it gives me an error. I would like to share the registry file i use to resolve this issue and enabled the firewall setting and hope it will help.
1. Open a notepad, and paste the the following command.