Corrupt firewall settings?

Hi all.
I have a question about the Vista firewall. I can't access the firewall settings - IE: clicking on the exceptions in the control panel. He tells me that firewallsettings.exe is not a valid win32 application.
I tried everything to find if there is a way to re - install the file without doing a full install of vista? I also have the copy of the original vista ultimate here - but the drive gives me no option to repair? Maybe to do with sp1?
In any case... an important part of the story is that my PC did a CHKDSK for the first time yesterday and I noticed that he was trying to deal with $130... and may have mentioned, he couldn't fix something or other... heh hee! I'm sorry.
I run SFC and got a LOG file and it mentions FIREWALLSETTINGS a few times - but it maks no sense for me...

I'd appreciate some help here.
Thanks in advance!

Hi Legiain,

You can try to re - install, but these uninstallation files are used to restore your system to the same State it was before the installation.  Try this link.  Download the executable file and run it.

http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B0C7136D-5EBB-413B-89C9-CB3D06D12674&displaylang=en

Please let us know the results.

Brent
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