Vista - Re: how do you turn off firewall

irrespective of whether we think you need a firewall or not (and I would
definitely recommend it even if you're behind a NAT router with SPI) you can
disable the firewall via control panel /security center.

You'll be repeatedly nagged by Vista that you don't have the firewall
enabled until you indicate to Vista that you have a firewall that you will
manage yourself.

Joe

"AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message
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> how do you totally turn off the vista firewall on all interfaces? i have
> no need for it.

"Joe Guidera" <jguidera@remove.msn.com> wrote in message
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> irrespective of whether we think you need a firewall or not (and I would
> definitely recommend it even if you're behind a NAT router with SPI) you
> can disable the firewall via control panel /security center.
>
> You'll be repeatedly nagged by Vista that you don't have the firewall
> enabled until you indicate to Vista that you have a firewall that you will
> manage yourself.
>
> Joe
>
> "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.
>


you do not turn off the firewall in security center. there is nothing to do
with that in there. sheese.

Control Panel / Windows Firewall / Turn Windows Firewall on or off

After you've turned it off you can also stop the "Windows Firewall Service"
and set it to Manual start, in Administrative tools / Services

I personally run my network behind a real hardware firewall and never run
software firewalls of any description. I've never had any PC compromised,
but I'll admit the software firewalls are very useful for people who don't
have the ability to set up appropriate rules on a real one.

Now if MS would just let me turn off that stupid 10 half open TCP connection
limit as well .....

Peter Lawton

"AMDX2" <d@d.com> wrote in message
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> "Joe Guidera" <jguidera@remove.msn.com> wrote in message
> news41254D3-CD1C-4EA8-8497-2B20DF55E1A2@microsoft.com...
>> irrespective of whether we think you need a firewall or not (and I would
>> definitely recommend it even if you're behind a NAT router with SPI) you
>> can disable the firewall via control panel /security center.
>>
>> You'll be repeatedly nagged by Vista that you don't have the firewall
>> enabled until you indicate to Vista that you have a firewall that you
>> will manage yourself.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> "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.
>>
>
>
> you do not turn off the firewall in security center. there is nothing to
> do with that in there. sheese.

>
>Now if MS would just let me turn off that stupid 10 half open TCP connection
>limit as well .....
Just found this tonight so I haven't tried it, but you can up the
limit. Let me know if it works:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...event-id-4226/