Re: Can't disable 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" <jbeem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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??


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