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Windows 7 - file and printer sharing will not turn on and stay on

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Boggin:
Noticed a mistake in my last post - I right clicked on SB 1 to select Modify.

rudolph963:
I had SMB 1 showing under parameters in the left hand pane but not in the right hand pane. I will change and see what that does.  No change.

Boggin:
No wonder that cmdlet didn't work - it should have been done in Power Shell and not from an admin cmd prompt - must clean my specs :)

I still don't have SMB 1 in the left pane after creating the key.

Reading the article, it says it's a subkey of Parameters so perhaps it should only be in the right pane.

Create a restore point then go into the registry - click on SMB 1 in the left pane - File - Export and call it SMB 1

This will save it to Documents as a Registry entry.

Go back to SMB 1 in the left pane, right click on SMB 1 and select Delete then do the steps that I did to create it, not forgetting to reboot to effect the changes.

However, on searching about SMB, it seems like it's a separate file sharing protocol but not having done any file or printer sharing - I haven't come across any problems.

Going back to that Rapport E164 in Device Manager - from the little I've found on that it seems to be some sort of security program.

Have you ever installed it ?

As it has a yellow alert next to it, it would seem to buggy, so create a restore point then right click on Rapport E164 and select Uninstall.

If it has a box to include software - leave that unchecked.

Either click on Action/Scan for hardware changes or reboot to see if it is reinstated, but either way, see if File and Printer sharing then remains on.

Tim_Tweaking:
There's a lot of possibilities here and Boggin has tried most of my ideas. However there is a known issue often after an infection that grays out your predefined rules.

Are your predefined rules grayed out? http://superuser.com/questions/375100/what-happened-to-my-predefined-rules-in-windows-firewall-how-can-i-get-them-b

When you ran Windows Repair did you make sure you ran the Firewall Repair? If this was an issue it should have fixed it. You can also run this standalone without running all Windows Repair. Optionally uncheck all
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/tweaking_com_repair_windows_firewall,2.html

Of course you can turn Windows Firewall off as well and achieve the same goal.

Boggin:
My first suggestion (so long ago :)) was to turn off any AV program or Windows Firewall which had no effect.

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