text: my firewall? iam using windows xp home edtion with service pack 2 i want to change my windows firewall settings,but it wont let me. all it says is: for your security,some settings are controlled by group policy. is there a way i can change this??? (fyi-i'm the computer administrator) its really strange that you have group policy on a home edition pc.  if you additionally installed that then i would suggest you to search the mskb