[shiprock520]

I have a laptop HP with Vista Home premium, with 2 firewalls, the windows firewall and something called Vista firewall control, the icon has flames, that blocks everything not enabled. When I ran Antivir, I filled out a registration form and thats when I ran into the problem. I cannot get by the firewall to enable this new anti virus. I had AVG for 2 years and didn't like the new upgrade so I was wanting to try this as Security Fix from the Washington Post has been ragging it also. I have never figured out how to disable, uninstall, or delete this extra firewall. Even in programs I'm stopped. Moreover it's stopping me from adding antivir even when I added it to the enabled list like I did for every program that needs the internet. I run as administrator, and am not allowed to delete, don't have permission. I'm writing from my PC with Firefox for the first time, not bad

[golferbob]

since i don't run vista ,this may not work ,it does on xp. goto your control panel ,click on firewall and disable it.

[shiprock520]

And that's the problem. No disable, no uninstall, either in programs or control panel or tray. It's a monster, I'm forbidden to delete it. It's not in the uninstall a program either

[Gizzy]

Hello shiprock520

I believe this is the program you're talking about? http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html

This is from their FAQ,

How to Un-install

VistaFirewallControl un-installer requires VistaFirewallControl's control panel (for desktop version) is not running. The requirement prevents you from redundant necessity of reboot after the un-installation. As the result, to uninstall the product, please close VistaFirewallControl first: TrayIcon/RightClick/Close.

[shiprock520]

Thanks for answering. Doesn't it sound so easy. Truth be told it does NOT ever give me the option for any uninstall or delete, even though I run one user account (Admin.). Since this is just my astronomy laptop, with nothing that can't be reinstalled, I have chosen the 'restore to factory' route. However for anyone else you can 'enable all' and get around any problems. This software program has never been praised, and I still have the Vista firewall (which has never been praised either)