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Windows Firewall is a basic port filter built into Microsoft Windows, starting with Windows XP SP2.

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How to re-trigger "Windows firewall has blocked..." message?

I ran some program and it popped up Windows Firewall notification. I didn't think and clicked "cancel" in it. Now my program crashes with network errors. How to re-enable this message in order to press "Allow" button? UPDATE Note: the question is…
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Blocking web sites with Windows Firewall

Is it possible to use Windows Firewall to block specific web sites for all browsers?
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Windows cannot access \\[other computer] error code 0x80004005

I have two windows machine on a home wired network, one running windows 7 (I will call it w7 from now on) and one running windows 8.1 (I will call it w8 from now on). Both machines could access each other's shared folders (shared using "advanced…
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Windows Firewall: How to allow traffic on a specific port (eg. 8080)?

I am trying to configure team Foundation Server so that: It is accessible from within my Home Network, and The Web site is accessible via the Internet I have a problem with point 1: When I access http://192.168.1.106:8080/tfs/web/ locally from…
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Import Export specific Windows Firewall Rule

How do I Export and Import specific Window Firewall rule (both Inbound and Outbound) ? I can do Import / Export policy but it will use ALL rules not specific rule. Same with Export List, it can export all list of rules of Inbound or Outbound in…
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Viewing Windows Firewall settings from the command line and a GUI

Is it possible to view Windows firewall settings from the command line? In addition how can I check the advanced Windows Firewall settings in a GUI?
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Using Windows Firewall to block a specific IP on Windows 10

For some reason I'm having some site pestering my LogMeIn account with a bad login. It is consistently the same IP. Rather than relying upon LogMeIn's rudimentary login security I'd rather entirely block that IP entirely. How do I do that using…
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Windows Firewall: Logging/Notifying on outgoing request attempts

I'm trying to configure Windows firewall with Advanced Security to log and tell me when programs are trying to make outbound requests. I previously tried installing ZoneAlarm, which worked wonders for me with this in Windows XP. But now, I'm unable…
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Enable Remote Desktop in Windows Firewall from command line

note: #command-line tag do not imply batch-file-only, I will accept a PowerShell script or any freely available utility, which can be started from command line and finish its work unattended. tl;dr how to unattendedly transform firewall rules…
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Can I define my own "set of predefined computers" in Windows Firewall?

According to Microsoft, I can. Note: You can also define or select a set of computer from a drop-down menu that has a predefined set of computer. Refer to the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security documentation to find out how to define a set…
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WSL2 connect to host without disabling the windows firewall

I simply want to connect from my WSL2 Ubuntu installation to my host windows on port 8529. What I tried: Disabled my public firewall. This works but is no option. I added bash, wsl, and the ubuntu app to the firewall rules. This didn't work I added…
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Is it possible to see changes made to windows firewall in recent past?

I would like to check if some program or port has been enabled or disabled in last few hours on my computer in windows firewall? Is there some log where I can check this?
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Windows Firewall: Block everything except one app on port 80

I'd like to block all outgoing port 80 activity except for one particular application. Why? I want to test a piece of software to see if it will fall back to a proxy if a direct connection to the web is not available. I need to allow my proxy to…
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How to prevent Windows Update from re-enabling firewall rules?

Regularly some Windows Update packages silently re-enable firewall rules, both Inbound and Outbound, is there a way to disable a rule for good or to remove from Windows Update the right to alter firewall rules? (deleting rules does no good, Windows…
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Allowing IP range in Windows Firewall

I installed Windows 7 on my main machine and Windows Firewall is causing havoc with my home network. I can't seem to connect to the main machine running Windows Firewall from any other machines on my network. I've used Zone Alarm in the past and…
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