B.3. Lab B.3: Turn on the Firewall in Windows XP: Method Two

This lab requires a Windows XP workstation.

To turn on the firewall, follow these steps:

  1. Choose Start Control Panel Security Center. The dialog box shown in Figure B.3 appears.

    NOTE

    Instead of choosing Security Center in Control Panel, you could choose Windows Firewall and immediately access the Firewall Configuration dialog box. The advantage of choosing Security Center is that you see the other options that are also available.

  2. Toggle the setting for the firewall from Off to On.

  3. Exit ...

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