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If you haven't as yet managed to fix it I would follow Borg 386 advice and do a refresh. Will save lots of time and headaches just make sure to back up everything. The 2 value in the registry indicates the Firewall should be active and you should be able to change it's statues from services.msc and it does sound like this would need more then just the usual fix so that refresh is probably the quickest and I've seen people chasing fixes for weeks rather than clean install or refresh that even with needing to reinstall software can be matter of hours instead of weeks