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WindowsXP: Removing Group Policy Control of Windows Firewall; Group Policy; gpedit.msc

Run the Group Policy snap-in (gpedit.msc). Under Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Network Connections > Windows Firewall set "Protect all network connections" to Not Configured. Do this for Domain Profile and Standard Profile.

Run gpupdate. This program is described here:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/
    all/proddocs/en-us/refrgp.mspx?mfr=true
mod date: 2009-03-10T04:47:44.000Z