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[notmyrealname]

Hi,

Has anybody tried comodo firewall with Google Desktop? I'm having problems.

After the install I logon and get as expect a lot of prompts to allow access, I've OK'd all these and ticked to remember the settings. However GD doesn't won't fully start, the icon is there on the systray but not fully loaded - appears to be hung, on logoff XP prompts to end the Google Desktop task.

I've tried changing the application settings for the all the google exes Desktop, Crawl, Display and Index to allow any activity but they still fail.

The route of the problem seems to be that comodo logs suspicious activity IP 0.0.0.0:4662 - tried setting up rules to allow this, but still fails.

Any ideas?

[egemen]

Please update your CPF to version 2.1.0.1 and make sure you have the latest google desktop.

Egemen

[notmyrealname]

OK. Will try that this weekend.

[notmyrealname]

 :DTried the updated version and google desktop is now happily coexisting.

 :(Unfortunately there still seem to be problems. I now don't get all my task tray icons - for example add/remove hardware and the Nvidia sound applet tray icon.

[panic]

:DTried the updated version and google desktop is now happily coexisting.

 :(Unfortunately there still seem to be problems. I now don't get all my task tray icons - for example add/remove hardware and the Nvidia sound applet tray icon.

This probably doesn't have anything to do with Comodo. This is a known fault with Windows XP - not common - and Microsoft are not definitively sure of the cause. Do a google for the term "missing tray icons" and you should find several possible fixes.

I'm not saying it couldn't have been Comodo, but my moneys on XP screwing up.

Hope this helps,
Ewen :-)

[notmyrealname]

Mostly agree with you and have seen it before. However it happens on all reboots with comodo, remove comodo and put zone alarm back on and the problem goes away.

[panic]

Mostly agree with you and have seen it before. However it happens on all reboots with comodo, remove comodo and put zone alarm back on and the problem goes away.

hmmmmm .....
There's two possibilities - 1)the Comodo install is actually causing this or 2) the Comodo install is creating the environment that allows the XP bug to trigger.

Have you tried installing CPF and then applying the XP system tray fixes?

I would recommend you try this, as the firewall is really brilliant.

Here's a couple of links for possible fixes:
http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1034225301
http://winhlp.com/WxSystray.htm

More and more of these possible fixes seem to revolve around UPnP - Universal Plug and Play. Is UPnP enabled? If so, do you run hardware that will only run with a UPnP driver? If not, the Gibson Research site (www.grc.com) has a free downloadable tool that lets you turn on or off the UPnP service. Their recommendation is to turn it off unless absolutely required and I tend to agree with them. You could downloadthis tool, turn off UPnP, reboot and see if the issue has gone away, or changed in nature. If nothing else, it may give us a pointer of where to look next. I realise a gradual process of elimination is not necessarily the quickest way to find a solution, but it worked for my in-laws!  LOL

If the problem still exists after applying the fixes, please send an email to support[ at ]comodo.com. The tech guys there are among the best I've ever come across and Comodo as a company are particularly responsive.

Hope this helps,
ewen :-)

P.S. If this does fix the issue, can you please post here so everyone else can benefit. Thanks

[notmyrealname]

Thanks for your continued help. Lots of info in those links so will be working my way through them.

One of the first suggestions I read was to set 'Hide icons for networked UPnP devices' I did that and my icons returned, however Google Desktop Search now doesn't startup correctly again (same symptons I started with).

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