Bruce's dashboard

I recently installed SPF on a laptop running Windows Vista using the automatic mode, since the user was not experienced. Once SPF was installed, the network printer (over a wireless network) would not work. SPF also blocked access to the shopping cart of a reliable online merchant. In the end, I had to uninstall the product since I did not want to use the ask mode (which I use and often have to respond to situations where I thought I told SPF how to respond to this item in the past). How do I make this product work?