From: phamp@mindspring.com   
      
   After a Computer crash and the demise of civilization, it was learned   
   "Chuck"  wrote on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:42:12 -0700 in   
   alt.os.windows.xp :   
   >Odd . . . I would think that if you went into the Control Panel>Windows   
   >Firewall and just turn it off and install something like ZoneAlarm ...   
      
   	I have something, and it won't install.  Error 1324; moon not in the   
   proper house, Jupiter is aligned with Mars, and the secretary has the   
   wrong color eye shadow.  Which is a real bummer, as I don't have a   
   secretary.   
   >   
   >but if you need to screw up your computer more . . . you can access the   
   >Group Policy Editor by clicking START>RUN and type gpedit.msc then click   
   >enter or OK   
      
   	Tried that.  Nothing by that name.  So that's not a problem.  It is   
   "funny", that I used to have to turn Microsoft firewall off to run the   
   3rd party firewall.  But now that I don't have a firewall program, I   
   don't have Microsoft either.  For no reason at all, possibly save that   
   my car insurance doesn't cover windows.   
      
   	Microsoft writes some of the most cryptic, useless, and generic   
   messages one is likely to find outside of a Chinese fortune cookie.  Or   
   maybe they're using the same pool of writers.   
      
      
   tschus   
   pyotr   
      
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   pyotr filipivich   
   We now return you to something called reality.   
      
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