Can't disable Windows Firewall

[Guest]

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??

 

[Steven L Umbach]

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

 

[Guest]

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]

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

 

[Guest]

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

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

Ha®®y

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