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| | Re: how do you turn off firewall Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Advanced Settings | Off. That should turn it off on all interfaces, as well. Windows may throw up a complaint, but you can change that in the Control Panel | Security Center | left pane where it says "Change the way Security Center alerts me". -- Dustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com http://www.vistarip.com -- "AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message news:F18648AE-465B-4CC5-9CBE-A4FEDF3BCA5A@microsoft.com... > how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i have > no need for it. |
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| | Re: how do you turn off firewall "Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message news:4A1D3AD2-A0A3-4E5D-9A8C-2381191F4F7A@microsoft.com... > Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Advanced Settings | Off. > > That should turn it off on all interfaces, as well. Windows may throw up a > complaint, but you can change that in the Control Panel | Security Center > | left pane where it says "Change the way Security Center alerts me". > > -- > Dustin Harper > dharper@vistarip.com > http://www.vistarip.com > > -- > "AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message > news:F18648AE-465B-4CC5-9CBE-A4FEDF3BCA5A@microsoft.com... >> how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i have >> no need for it. > there is no advanced settings in there. |
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| | Re: how do you turn off firewall AMDX2 wrote: > "Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message > news:4A1D3AD2-A0A3-4E5D-9A8C-2381191F4F7A@microsoft.com... >> Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Advanced Settings | Off. >> >> That should turn it off on all interfaces, as well. Windows may throw >> up a complaint, but you can change that in the Control Panel | >> Security Center | left pane where it says "Change the way Security >> Center alerts me". >> >> -- >> Dustin Harper >> dharper@vistarip.com >> http://www.vistarip.com >> >> -- >> "AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message >> news:F18648AE-465B-4CC5-9CBE-A4FEDF3BCA5A@microsoft.com... >>> how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i >>> have no need for it. >> > > there is no advanced settings in there. it really is quite simple... start orb > type windows firewall and hit enter > on the left hand side of the window there are options to turn on or off the firewall regards, tom |
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| | Re: how do you turn off firewall Advanced settings: Start | Accessories | run: wf.msc. Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. All your options are in there. -- Dustin Harper dharper@vistarip.com http://www.vistarip.com -- "AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message news:A64A306C-9DD8-4202-B8A9-94424E27AC57@microsoft.com... > "Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message > news:4A1D3AD2-A0A3-4E5D-9A8C-2381191F4F7A@microsoft.com... >> Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Advanced Settings | Off. >> >> That should turn it off on all interfaces, as well. Windows may throw up >> a complaint, but you can change that in the Control Panel | Security >> Center | left pane where it says "Change the way Security Center alerts >> me". >> >> -- >> Dustin Harper >> dharper@vistarip.com >> http://www.vistarip.com >> >> -- >> "AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message >> news:F18648AE-465B-4CC5-9CBE-A4FEDF3BCA5A@microsoft.com... >>> how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i have >>> no need for it. >> > > there is no advanced settings in there. |
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| | Re: how do you turn off firewall "Tom" <tom@nospam.com> wrote in message news:uFkpPDpeHHA.2332@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > AMDX2 wrote: >> "Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message >> news:4A1D3AD2-A0A3-4E5D-9A8C-2381191F4F7A@microsoft.com... >>> Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Advanced Settings | Off. >>> >>> That should turn it off on all interfaces, as well. Windows may throw up >>> a complaint, but you can change that in the Control Panel | Security >>> Center | left pane where it says "Change the way Security Center alerts >>> me". >>> >>> -- >>> Dustin Harper >>> dharper@vistarip.com >>> http://www.vistarip.com >>> >>> -- >>> "AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message >>> news:F18648AE-465B-4CC5-9CBE-A4FEDF3BCA5A@microsoft.com... >>>> how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i >>>> have no need for it. >>> >> >> there is no advanced settings in there. > > it really is quite simple... start orb > type windows firewall and hit > enter > on the left hand side of the window there are options to turn on > or off the firewall > > regards, > > tom ok cool. it had an error inside windows firewall when i did this because i stopped the service a while ago. it said in windows firewall in the right window pane it had a stop error because the service is stopped. so it's all cool i spose. as long as it is totally off. and the reason for wanting no software firewall is cus i can't do filesharing at all for some reason and want to disable all possible conflicts specially when i don't need a software firewall. |
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