If you use Windows default Firewall, many times you might need to disable firewall for troubleshooting issues. To disable firewall, you have to follow no. of steps like opening Control Panel, then open Windows Firewall applet, then click on "Change Settings" and finally select "Off" and Apply it.
Its a lengthy process and it would be better if we could create a shortcut which can directly enable/disable Windows Firewall in a single click.
Our friend at How To Geek recently posted a tutorial for creating shortcuts to enable/disable Firewall.
Following are the required steps:
1. Right-click on Desktop and select "New -> Shortcut".
2. It'll ask for Location of the item. Type following command in the location box:
To Create Shortcut to Disable Firewall, use following command:
netsh firewall set opmode disable
To Create Shortcut to Enable Firewall, use following command:
netsh firewall set opmode enable
3. Click on "Next" button. Now provide a name and click on "Finish" button.
4. That's it. It'll create a shortcut on Desktop. Now you can change its icon, name, assign shortcut key by entering into shortcut's Properties.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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Omi Azad
Still I want to stay away from Windows Firewall. I doubt that works.
VG
^^ lol. It works man. I'm using it in Vista.
marco
additional:
for WindowsXP Icon, use this file --> xpsp2res.dll
Thank's