just to share with you my experience, it gave me a lot of
troubles until i found out..
IF you disable the startup of Outpost Firewall during boot in
msconfig, the firewall is STILL ACTIVATED and you won't be able to
uninstall outpost firewall unless you undo the process of disabling
the startup.
i had trouble accessing network files for a week..all because of
that..
All in all.. avoid trying to disable startup of firewalls using
msconfig and end up in a similar situation as me.