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I moved my own post because it had little to do with feedback...

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium (64) SP2

Recently a Virus attacked my system and among other things I lost all Windows Firewall Predefined Rules.  I managed to repair most of the damage done except this one particular issue, the aforementioned missing predefined rules.  This has caused the exact issue that is described in the following link, except I'm running Vista, not Windows 7.  I'm linking the following description because it is an extremely well made presentation of the problem: http://superuser.com/questions/375042/cannot-turn-on-network-discovery-and-file-sharing-when-windows-firewall-is-ena

The fix is relatively simple provided you have access to another machine with a working copy of the exact same version OS.  Unfortunately that is something I do not have on hand.  I tried to see if my copy of Vista had some sort of repair option, but it turns out that Vista has not repair option at all, unless I run an "upgrade" install.   I've done that sort of thing in the past and it can cause some major headaches with overwriting settings and file versions.  I'll end up with more problems than I currently have.

What I need is a .reg file with the missing registry entries.  Does anyone know where I could find such a thing?

I ran Windows Repair (All in One).  I believe it caught some things I hadn't yet fixed, but it did not fix the missing predefined rules.  I can easily understand why that particular fix is not included, it's not common and it can potentially be a real headache to include fixes for every version.  But Windows Repair is an awesome program, thank you for building it.  If I ever get up on my feet I will give support.

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