Thanks Ken. I knew it was supposed to be in Admin Tools, but I missed
it in the main menu and was looking for it in Computer Management.
Incidentally, this seems to be far less user friendly than a
proprietary firewall like say Zone Alarm.
I wanted to ensure that only approved programs could send outgoing
transmissions, but I think I'll leave well alone.
Chuck
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:36:31 +1000, "Ken Schaefer"
<kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>If you go to the Administrative Tools folder (which you can access from
>Control Panel, or from the Start Menu if you have configued it to be shown
>on the Start Menu) there is a link to the "Windows Firewall with Advanced
>Security" MMC Snapin. That can be used to configure (via a GUI) outbound and
>inbound rules.
>
>Alternatively, if you wan to do this programmatically, you can use netsh.exe
>
>Cheers
>Ken
>
>--
>My IIS Blog: www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken
>
><Chuck> wrote in message news:lsfa33pqj9ahop03rhm0js4733f41bflm5@4ax.com...
>>I have seen several reports about how Vista allows the built-in
>> Firewall to be configured to control outgoing connections.
>>
>> Is that something limited to Ultimate, because I can't find any access
>> to it or reference about it in my Home Premium???.