Gremlins: 1
farokhmonajem wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
The computer starts losing time. Windows Media player refuses to play anything. Does not seem to recognize its own presence. Weird and wonderful messages appear on the screen.
The client suspects that the CMOS battery is dead. The computer, as he put it, was going wonky. The clock could not synchronize with any of the many atomic clocks that are out there.
Through the usual set of tests and retests, the problem was eventually narrowed down to the Windows Firewall. It was not turned on, and worse, refuse to turn on. No clear message, just would not turn on.
The Microsoft Knowledge Base revealed many articles, but only one that was of particular interest: KB-914230 titled “You cannot turn on or turn off the Windows Firewall setting on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer”. Who comes […]
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