Bro, you literally have it exactly backwards.

At home = ZERO PROBLEMS.
At Starbucks = ZERO PROBLEMS
At Mom and Pops Bed & Breakfast in Alaska with Dial-up = ZERO PROBLEMS

At the...

Oh, you have it backwards: This only happens in our Corporate Office, (my location) where approx 100 other users have no such issue. At her home or "abroad" she has no problems with it.
She is here...

Hi All, this problem is driving me to :drink:

I have a user (Windows 10 Home) who works both in and out of the office on her Laptop.

We have a website that we use to handle all of our client...

My point is this:

You don't want the Windows Firewall on, fine, nether do I. But if you create a shortcut to the services, you can turn on the Firewall service at your convenience to run updates,...

If they won't let you run a certain kinds of processes, updates or cmdlets without activating windows Firewall, that's called forcing you to use their firewall. ;)

PS: Windows Defender and Windows...