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Turn on Windows Firewall - unwanted message every boot.
Hi,
I do apologise if this has been asked, I have searched and also used google to search, to no avail, at least not worded this way.
I do not use windows firewall, I opt to use Windows10Firewall Control, which does, IMO, a better job of giving me control. Which is really beside the point.
I have disabled Windows Firewall in settings, and asked it not to alert me, yet on Every boot I get the dingle tune and the alert box popping up telling me "Turn Windows Firewall On." with an X next to it.
I made the mistake once of clicking the X to get rid of this, but that's a new trick... it, for some reason, tells windows "Hey This idiot wants to turn the firewall on, we better do it, silently." and I spent the next few hours pulling my hair out as to why my test webserver was now inaccessible.. I mean, I turned it off, I set it to not alert me, I clicked the X, yet it still knows better than I do.
I have tried searching inside settings for an option to stop this annoying intrusive alert, yet when I click on "Change how windows alerts me" it only takes me to a settings page for notifications of selected apps, like mail..
I have had to refresh the OS a number of times trying my hardest to fix little things like this.
Please someone must know how to get rid of this. I am not brand new. I know what risks I take not having this on, but I don't need it. and the fact that it sneakily turns on when you think you are clicking the X button, which in every single other instance of windows means "Go away" and not "Yes, ok I agree" just makes my skin crawl.
I am becoming pretty over 10 quite fast
any help would be appreciated... even if it's delete some exe or edit the backside out of the registry... :/