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ka6uup:
First of all I noticed I had not stated that this is on a Windows XP sp3 system. sorry about that. ( if it makes any difference)
I then uninstalled Windows Repair (all in one.)
Secondly, this is my wife's computer and although I am the one who maintains it, .net Framework 4.0
was not installed on it, which was my fault.
I installed .net 4.0 and also installed Windows Search 4.0.
I than ran the above commands, both with and without the quotation marks????? from the start/run window.
It has made no difference in the problem.

Rick:
Have you tried these?

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_security_diagnostic/

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_firewall_diagnostic/

Willy2:
Windows XP ? Yes, it ABSOLUTELY DOES make a difference !!! The two files mentioned before are Win 7 files. See if you got a file called "c:\windows\system32\Firewall.cpl".  If not, then a copy of that file could be in the "c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\" subfolder and copy that to the system32 subfolder.

Did you do a system file check ? (step 3) in "Windows Repair" (sfc /scannow) ? Perhaps more files are missing.

ka6uup:
Yes, firewall.cpl is in system32.
I did both chkdsk and system file checker day before yesterday.
Both showed no problems.
Chuck

Willy2:
Some last suggestions:
- Event viewer showed two errors with "Perfnet", "event ID 2004", "Server Service", "Performance info couldn't be returned". Some GOOGLE-ing revealed that this is a "networking" problem. You could do more research with these keywords. For me, it suggests once more that WMI could be faulty/broken, fails to pull up the required info for the firewall. Or perhaps the firewall fails to pull up info from the performance counters/monitors.
- Does XP have a process/service "Services" (as well) ?
- Did you recently install some new drivers for e.g. the network(ing) hardware ? Those drivers could contain some faulty program code.
- Try to re-install the drivers for the network hardware. Those drivers also register info Windows needs. Some think Windows is very smart but the info Windows pulls up, is provided by software/drivers. I wouldn't be surprised that WMI info (*.mof) is installed by software (drivers) as well.

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