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Turn off Windows Firewall in Vista

February 11th, 2009
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There might be some cases when would like to turn off Windows Firewall in Windows Vista, which is on by default settings. We will show you two easiest way to change your firewall stats in Windows Vista.

Windows Vista Firewall

Here is how to turn off Windows Firewall in Windows Vista:

  1. click on Windows start button

    2. Windows start button

  2. select Control Panel

    3. control panel

  3. in a class view click on Security Center

    4. control-panel-security-center

  4. in Windows Security Center click on Windows Firewall

    5. Windows Security Center

  5. in Windows Firewall window click on change setting
  6. now you can finally turn off firewall by selecting “off” in Windows Firewall Settings
  7. to confirm new firewall status click OK button

    8. Windows Firewall Setting

More advanced users can also use this command to turn Windows Firewall “off” or “on”.

  1. in run write command listed below, and hit enter

%systemroot%\System32\netsh.exe firewall set opmode disable
Windows run

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  1. Christine
    February 11th, 2009 at 23:35 | #1
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    Thank you. This Windows Firewall was driving me crazy!

  2. FixExe
    February 12th, 2009 at 00:38 | #2
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    @Christine
    I am glad we helped you solve it Christine.

  3. 3tripple
    February 16th, 2009 at 00:10 | #3
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    I couldn’t use Norton properly as long built-in firewall was running. Thanks!

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