Windows ICS

[ikillbears]

My windows wont enable its ICS i tell it turn it on and it says " and error occured when trying to enable ICS, cannot complete this function"

how the hell do i fix this its driving me mad

 

[ikillbears]

any body ?

 

[Wyvern971]

where are you trying to turn ICS on?

I have no previous experience with ICS, so ignore me if I'm talking rubbish (which others may point out)

run "services.msc" and make sure the "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" service is running would be the first step I think

 

[ikillbears]

when i try and start it in services thing it says

"Error 10047 : An adress incompatable with the request protocal was used"

so err what does that mean

 

[Wyvern971]

well looking at the ms site gives this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892350/en-us

 

[Jonny69]

Ok, first things first, uninstall Norton or Mcafee if you're using them as MS suggest that third party firewalls and security center apps like that can get in the way.

Next check the computer for Spyware with Adaware and Spybot in case it is a piece of spyware controlling the internet connection. MS suggest that it might be a broken internet connection due to LSPs being used by some spyware: Download LSPFix and see if it flags up a broken internet connection. Anything that it wants to fix let it fix but DON'T delete anything that it doesn't automatically flag up!

 

[ikillbears]

didnt have any anti virus software on there , did a spyware check nothing . its really really annoying! maybe i should just bloody format :\