"casinodlr" wrote

> I am having trouble turning on the firewall and when trying to reboot
> system just freezes stating shutting down so I have to reset. Is there
> anyway of fixing this problem and the firewall is reading dut to an
> unidentified problem windows cannot display the firewall settings.

For the system freeze at reboot see this troubleshooter.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

For the firewall problem is a 3rd party firewall installed as well?