Kerio 2.1.5 won't install properly

About one year ago I posted a problem about installing Kerio 2.1.5 on a Windows XP system:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=221143

To recap, when I went to boot the p.c. after installing Kerio, the XP boot up took several minutes before the following error message appeared:
"C:\Program Files\Kerio\Personal Firewall\PERSFW.EXE
pfVarLibInit: vol_server_start error: 1 (10022 socket() failed)"

Thereafter I could not log on to Windows.

I believe the problem was due to the two on-board network adapters as Kerio worked fine when they were disabled.

Well one year later, the following procedure seems to have corrected the problem:

1. Load updated network drivers (Intel PRO1000 in my case, e1q5132.inf)
2. Enable NetBIOS over tcp/ip on adaptor #1, disable on (unused) adaptor #2.
3. Run WinsockxpFix.exe

I don't which of the three steps was the crucial one, but now I can report that my XP computer is booting up without problems every time

Having said that, I've since migrated from Windows XP to Ubuntu 9.04. I use Ubuntu for everything except video editing.

Thanks especially to Antarctica and noone_particular for their suggestions a year ago.

 

Please can a moderator move this thread to the "Other Firewalls" part of the forum?

 

Thanks JR!