Windows Firewall/ICS won't start

[peach395]

When I try to start the Windows Firewall, I get an error message that says "Could not start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified."

I found an earlier thread that disusses this issue, and the suggested solution of running "sfc /scannow" would help fix the issue by restoring any missing system files.

However, I can't seem to do that - my copy of Windows Home XP only has SP1, and the missing files (at least, some of them) are from the downloaded SP2 installation (for which I do not have a CD that the SFC utility wants to access).

Is there a way around this? Is there another utility that identifies any missing system files and can find a different way to restore them?

Thanks!
Eric

On Feb 1, 1:26 am, peach395 <peach395.342...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
> When I try to start the Windows Firewall, I get an error message that
> says "Could not start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing
> (ICS) service on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot find the
> file specified."
>
> I found an earlier thread that disusses this issue, and the suggested
> solution of running "sfc /scannow" would help fix the issue by
> restoring any missing system files.
>
> However, I can't seem to do that - my copy of Windows Home XP only has
> SP1, and the missing files (at least, some of them) are from the
> downloaded SP2 installation (for which I do not have a CD that the SFC
> utility wants to access).
>
> Is there a way around this? Is there another utility that identifies
> any missing system files and can find a different way to restore them?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
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http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic16323.html

"Error 2" when starting the Windows Firewall service:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...l-service.html

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"peach395" <peach395.342kbe@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:peach395.342kbe@DoNotSpam.com...

When I try to start the Windows Firewall, I get an error message that
says "Could not start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing
(ICS) service on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot find the
file specified."

I found an earlier thread that disusses this issue, and the suggested
solution of running "sfc /scannow" would help fix the issue by
restoring any missing system files.

However, I can't seem to do that - my copy of Windows Home XP only has
SP1, and the missing files (at least, some of them) are from the
downloaded SP2 installation (for which I do not have a CD that the SFC
utility wants to access).

Is there a way around this? Is there another utility that identifies
any missing system files and can find a different way to restore them?

Thanks!
Eric


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