I'm trying to disable Windows Firewall so that I can accept connections from
outside my network (for a program I am writing). I disabled the firewall from
Control Panel > Windows Firewall. It says that the firewall is disabled in
that window, but then when I go to Control Panel > Security Center it says
the firewall is enabled.

My program used to be able to connect from outside the network (disabling
the firewall actually worked), but now it can't connect and I'm guessing that
the Windows Firewall is what's causing the problem. I have not changed any
other settings as far as I know. Any ideas why it still says enabled in
Security Center when I disable it in Windows Firewall??

The command netsh firewall show state will show if the firewall is enabled
or not. You could take the brute force approach and use services.msc to
disable and stop the Windows Firewall service while logged on as an
administrator. --- Steve



"jbeem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:FE7F06FC-2C1E-4185-B1C9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to disable Windows Firewall so that I can accept connections
> from
> outside my network (for a program I am writing). I disabled the firewall
> from
> Control Panel > Windows Firewall. It says that the firewall is disabled in
> that window, but then when I go to Control Panel > Security Center it says
> the firewall is enabled.
>
> My program used to be able to connect from outside the network (disabling
> the firewall actually worked), but now it can't connect and I'm guessing
> that
> the Windows Firewall is what's causing the problem. I have not changed any
> other settings as far as I know. Any ideas why it still says enabled in
> Security Center when I disable it in Windows Firewall??

Thanks for the reply. I shut down the Windows Firewall service and it still
says "On" in the Security Center... it must be disabled, but maybe Windows is
just messed up?

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

> The command netsh firewall show state will show if the firewall is enabled
> or not. You could take the brute force approach and use services.msc to
> disable and stop the Windows Firewall service while logged on as an
> administrator. --- Steve
>

Offhand I can't tell you why security center says such but if the Windows
Firewall Service is disabled and you stopped the service the Windows
Firewall will not work. You would only need to stop the service once and
after that it will not start at computer startup. --- Steve


"jbeem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0B7D4A29-045E-49CE-8EF4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the reply. I shut down the Windows Firewall service and it
> still
> says "On" in the Security Center... it must be disabled, but maybe Windows
> is
> just messed up?
>
> "Steven L Umbach" wrote:
>
>> The command netsh firewall show state will show if the firewall is
>> enabled
>> or not. You could take the brute force approach and use services.msc to
>> disable and stop the Windows Firewall service while logged on as an
>> administrator. --- Steve
>>
>

Are you sure you don't have any other software acting as the Firewall?
For example, McAfee Personal firewall.

Open up the Security Center and if the Firewall is marked as "on" then
click on the green "On" button to see the details.

Hope this will help....

Harry


"Steven L Umbach" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Offhand I can't tell you why security center says such but if the Windows
>Firewall Service is disabled and you stopped the service the Windows
>Firewall will not work. You would only need to stop the service once and
>after that it will not start at computer startup. --- Steve
>
>
>"jbeem" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:0B7D4A29-045E-49CE-8EF4-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Thanks for the reply. I shut down the Windows Firewall service and it
>> still
>> says "On" in the Security Center... it must be disabled, but maybe Windows
>> is
>> just messed up?
>>
>> "Steven L Umbach" wrote:
>>
>>> The command netsh firewall show state will show if the firewall is
>>> enabled
>>> or not. You could take the brute force approach and use services.msc to
>>> disable and stop the Windows Firewall service while logged on as an
>>> administrator. --- Steve
>>>
>>
>


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