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Windows Firewall off notification #554
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@ltguillaume Does adding the line above in |
No idea, I've never had this notification. |
That's Windows 10 complaining about Windows Firewall being turned off (since that's the recommended action when using Simplewall). I thought this thread was about that notification. :) I have been wondering about how to get rid of that... :( I think I'll give one of the tips in this Serverfault thread a try... |
Can't you just tell Windows to stop giving those messages in the Security & Maintenance dialog? |
@cloudgreen Sorry, I was wrong: the thing is that you can only tell Windows to stop whining about the Defender Firewall's being disabled if you have removed Windows Defender altogether. Otherwise the option is greyed out, so you can't uncheck it. |
Thanks for following up, @ltguillaume! Yeah, there are a lot of different reports around the web about how to turn off the Windows Firewall warning, many include editing Group Policy settings, but many say it doesn't work. Your tip is probably the most likely one to be correct! But I would like to have the cake (Defender) and skip the warning... :) |
Yeah, it's ridiculous. Way to go, MS.... |
@henrypp If I understand correctly, this is the same as the I checked I found that I cannot turn off this notification in the Windows Notification Center or Security Center. I tried to turn off notifications in the windows firewall settings, but it didn't work, Any way to turn off this notifications? It pops up often and is accompanied by sounds, very annoying, I can't disable the entire notification center because of this. |
I have not been able to figure out how to stop the "Windows Firewall turned off" notification, without turning of the entire Windows Defender. (You can remove the sound in System Sounds, though...) |
@cloudgreen Do you mean to be able to delete sounds for specific app notifications, or delete all notification sounds? Obviously the latter is not the solution we need. |
I meant no system sounds at all, by selecting the "No sounds" sound scheme. (That's how I always roll it.) But my sound comment was merely a small "afterthought", the sound is the least of this problem... :) I am also interested in getting rid of the Firewall notification message itself. |
Try the following (not a proper solution but ...) Local Group Policy Editor > Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > All Settings Disable the following two policies: Edit: I think that will disable functions of the Windows Defender Firewall, without the ability to turn it back on from the Windows Security Dashboard, until of course the policies are restored. Edit2: The red cross on the Windows Defender icon in the taskbar will turn to the green check as well. ;) |
@mizzuri Errr yeah that's not gonna work: it will also cause simplewall's rules to be disabled. |
Not for me though. Actually isn't simplewall using its own rules? |
I tried to set these policies to disabled on Windows 10 19H2, then tried blocking Ungoogled-Chromium in simplewall. Result: it still opened all pages I tried. I even refreshed all the rules in simplewall (F5). It was only after resetting the two policies that Ungoogled-Chromium's access was blocked simplewall's rule. Could you please test this in a similar way on your system? |
Tested in the following ways while having set those two policies to disabled: Windows version: 1909 (Build 18363.815, x86_64)
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That's very odd then. I'll do some more testing. |
I don't think setting those 2 policies totally disable the windows' internal firewall. Edit: |
Came here for the same thing, followed @mizzuri 's suggestion here and can confirm: Simplewall still blocks connections, and so far no warning popups (win10 18362). Now just to see how long it takes Windows to switch back on the annoying warnings. I guess a "real solution" would be to allow windows to detect Simplewall as a custom firewall provider? Seeing as they allow custom providers for antivirus/malware/etc I would guess they have a system for firewall too. Though I do not know what effort and/or downsides are involved in that, or if it's feasible at all. |
I just tried again and there is some strange behavior around setting these policies:
I'll keep tabs on whether the filters keep working, but so far this is indeed the best workaround for the notification issue. |
I just tried it on another computer, and it also went fine. |
An update or something might have triggered the built-in firewall to turn back on today. My browser wasn't working in the morning, even though I have it allowed in the simplewall. Everything else seemed fine. So I checked the group policies again, and somehow the 2 Windows Defender Firewall settings were set to "Enable". I'm not sure what might have caused it. Something to be careful about. Weird things could happen if both simplewall and Windows Defender Firewall are on at the same time, I guess. |
Do you mean the policies turned back on and you saw a red cross warning over Defender's tray icon again, or did Defender Firewall actually get re-enabled? The last thing would be strange, since simplewall now checks again if Defender Firewall is enabled and then disables it when you ticked the checkbox to do so. I just mean that the firewall doesn't need to be enabled if those policies are back to default. |
No red cross. But the policies got re-enabled, so did the Defender Firewall. Maybe this was a fluke. I'll keep watch. |
I applied @mizzuri 's suggestion, it works, my Simplewall still blocks connections, no red cross, and no warning popups. (OS Version 1909) |
Just as a note for those of us that don't have access to gpedit/Group Policy, the Registry equivalents for those Group Policy settings are as follows: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\EnableFirewall (DWORD) = 0 Perhaps simplewall could provide an option to set these values to silence the notifications. |
Your method works perfectly mizzuri, thank you! this non-removable notification was starting to get bloody annoying. |
I'm going insane, still getting the firewalls notification despite attempting to use the tips by everyone in this thread on my two computers, both running Windows OS build 19041. I have attempted to disable the policies "Windows Defender Firewall: Protect all network connections" in (Local Group Policy Editor > Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > All Settings) as @mizzuri recommended. I've also disabled the following registries down below as recommended by @Jaitsu
But I'm still getting the notification every single day, does the tips above still work for anyone else? Or is there any other methods for disabling the Windows defender notifications? |
@Johandrex, the tip above still works for me. I'm on Windows Version 20H2 (19042). |
Disabling Windows Security service stops the notification from appearing. Im on Windows 11, but it worked on Windows 10 as well. You need to disable it from registry. Take ownership of the key to change the value of 'start' to '4'. Do it at your own risk. This will break the Windows Security app! |
Yeah, none of the solutions above stop the notification for me. Perhaps I'll be completely removing Windows Defender and replacing it with something else soon. I can't even use the notification system because I don't want a microaggression everytime I boot my PC (pun intended). |
Hey man, i'm on W11 22H2 pro version and still using the gpedit fix mizzuri posted and for me it's working. you tried that? |
any way to stop this from happening? ive got nofications for security centre off but its still warning me when simplewall turns it off at startup
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