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Your Windows firewall may not work as it should under Windows 10/8/7. You may have been infected by malware and it has changed the firewall settings – or you may have tried to configure the firewall settings manually, but you have done some damage somewhere. In any case, you can always restore or reset the Windows firewall settings to the default settings .
In this post, we will see how to reset Windows firewall settings to the default Windows 10/8/7 settings.
A firewall is software or hardware that scans information from the Internet or a network and blocks or lets it pass through your computer, depending on your firewall settings. It can prevent hackers or malware from accessing your computer via a network or the Internet. A firewall can also prevent your computer from sending malware to other computers.
To restore the Windows Firewall default settings, open the Control Panel and click Open Security Application. Here on the left you see a link Restore default values.
to restore the firewall to the default settings. Click the Restore defaults button. Restoring the default settings resets all firewall settings that you have configured for all network locations.
You are asked to confirm. Click Yes.
Windows firewall settings are reset to default values.
The Windows firewall has further improved and refined the already improved Windows Vista firewall in Windows 7/8/10. The default firewall is now quite powerful and allows you to block or open ports, access advanced firewall settings, including outgoing filtering configuration from the Control Panel, Administrative Console, Netsh utility or Group Policy Editor.
The neth advfirewall firewall command line context is available on Windows Vista and later. This context provides the functionality to control the behavior of the Windows firewall provided by the netsh firewall context in previous Windows operating systems.
The netsh firewall command line context may be obsolete in a future version of the Windows operating system, so Microsoft recommends that you use the netsh advfirewall firewall context to control firewall behavior.
You can also use the netsh advfirewall command line to reset or restore firewall settings and default values using the netsh advfirewall reset command.
When you type netsh advfirewall reset? 12), you get information about what it does.
To restore firewall settings, open a high command prompt, type the following and press Enter:
netsh advfirewall reset
This command resets the Windows firewall to the default policy with advanced security and sets all group policy settings to Not configured and deletes all connection security and firewall rules.
When the operation is finished, you will see ‘OK‘.
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