{"id":72946,"date":"2026-05-08T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=72946"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:10:31","slug":"windows-firewall-application-management-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-firewall-application-management-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Firewall Application Management Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/firewall\/control.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Windows Firewall Application Management Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/firewall\/control.gif\" title=\"Windows Firewall Application Management Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows Firewall Application Management Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In that same &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows security firewall topic as <a title='Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial' href='#wfbippt'>Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial<\/a> below &#8230; and allied to &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>yesterday&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/microsoft-defender-virus-protection-tutorial\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Defender Virus Protection Tutorial<\/a> &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; today <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/firewall\/control.gif\" rel=\"noopener\">we look at<\/a> how the Win+R command &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title='Windows firewall information' href='https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=control+firewall.cpl&#038;client=safari&#038;hs=GhAV&#038;sca_esv=19ca41183bcca24c&#038;rls=en&#038;ei=nuD6acnTG-O4vr0Pz-S_qQc&#038;biw=1418&#038;bih=725&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjJmqevhaSUAxVjnK8BHU_yL3UQ4dUDCBE&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=control+firewall.cpl&#038;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiFGNvbnRyb2wgZmlyZXdhbGwuY3BsMggQABiABBiwAzIOEAAYgAQYigUYhgMYsAMyDhAAGIAEGIoFGIYDGLADMgsQABiABBiiBBiwAzILEAAYgAQYogQYsANIrgVQAFgAcAF4AJABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBA8gBAJgCAaACEZgDAIgGAZAGBZIHATGgBwCyBwC4BwDCBwMzLTHIBwyACAE&#038;sclient=gws-wiz-serp' rel=\"noopener\">control firewall.cpl<\/a><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; can be used to manage Windows firewall settings <a target=\"_blank\" title='Microsoft Defender information' href='https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=windows+defender&#038;rlz=1C5OZZY_en&#038;oq=windows+defender&#038;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyEggAEEUYORiRAhixAxiABBiKBTINCAEQABiRAhiABBiKBTINCAIQABiRAhiABBiKBTINCAMQABiRAhiABBiKBTINCAQQABiRAhiABBiKBTIHCAUQABiABDIGCAYQRRg9MgYIBxBFGDzSAQg1MjgxajBqOagCBrACAfEFB6KByIIBtHM&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8' rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Defender<\/a> will be defending, especially the Windows desktop applications you allow through the firewall that would, as a default, refuse.  We had this happening on our Windows laptop involving the <a target=\"_blank\" title='FileZilla sftp\/ftp' href='https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/' rel=\"noopener\">FileZilla<\/a> sftp manager of file transferring to and from a public website &#8230; the one you are reading from.<\/p>\n<p><!--p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1's <a target=\"_blank\" href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-firewall-application-management-tutorial\/' rel=\"noopener\">Windows Firewall Application Management Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p-->\n<hr>\n<p id='wfbippt'>Previous relevant <a target=\"_blank\" title='Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-firewall-blocking-ip-primer-tutorial\/' rel=\"noopener\">Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/firewall\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/firewall\/firewall.jpg\" title=\"Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" title='Firewall information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firewall_(computing)' rel=\"noopener\">firewall<\/a> is a security device, or network security system, designed to protect a secure internal network from other networks, by the means to control the incoming and outgoing network traffic, via a rule set (in a similar way to how some email systems allow the user to write their own rules, to control the flow of emails into their email client mailboxes).<\/p>\n<p>Today, with our slideshow example, we imagine, on a Windows 7 laptop, that you want to block (or ban) the network traffic from a nominated IP address (or range of IP addresses).<\/p>\n<p>This kind of control can perhaps protect the computer network &#8220;behind&#8221; the firewall from some sort of scamming operation.<\/p>\n<p>This would be of pretty obvious interest to system administrators and network administrators charged with protecting the integrity of their network arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>The way to access the firewall functionality in Windows has been pretty fluid over the various versions of the Windows operating system, but the one we gravitate towards, as a generic piece of advice, is to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>get to a Windows Command Line prompt &#8230; and &#8230; type &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>firewall.cpl<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The firewall in Windows 7, at least, also appears in Control Panel as &#8220;Windows Firewall&#8221; &#8230; mainly because it would be pretty obtuse to say &#8220;Fenestra Firewall&#8221; (though it sounds like a good movie).<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the firewall duties for a Windows laptop, for instance, are taken on by the Virus Protection software you have installed, perhaps.  For instance, the <a target=\"_blank\" href='http:\/\/www.norton.com' title='Norton landing page' rel=\"noopener\">Norton by Symantec<\/a> software called <a target=\"_blank\" href='http:\/\/www.norton.com\/Security' title='Norton Internet Security landing page' rel=\"noopener\">Internet Security<\/a> offers up its own Windows Firewall as an option for use, that will supercede any Windows Firewall arrangements that come with an install of the Windows operating system.<\/p>\n<p>So please take a look at our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/firewall\/\" title=\"Click picture\" rel=\"noopener\">slideshow<\/a> showing you the blocking of our mythical 48.xx.xxx.xx IP address using Windows Firewall.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d16171' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d16171\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?tag=control-panel\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d16171' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d72946' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d72946\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/firewall\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d72946' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In that same &#8230; Windows security firewall topic as Windows Firewall Blocking IP Primer Tutorial below &#8230; and allied to &#8230; yesterday&#8217;s Microsoft Defender Virus Protection Tutorial &#8230; &#8230; today we look at how the Win+R command &#8230; control firewall.cpl &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-firewall-application-management-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,29,37],"tags":[53,96,249,5491,319,320,1941,2007,1641,782,1114,1127,1129,1319,5493,1435,5492],"class_list":["post-72946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-networking","category-operating-system","category-tutorials","tag-access","tag-application","tag-configuration","tag-defender","tag-desktop","tag-desktop-application","tag-file-transfer","tag-filezilla","tag-firewall","tag-microsoft","tag-security","tag-settings","tag-sftp","tag-tutorial","tag-winr","tag-windows","tag-windows-defender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72956,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72946\/revisions\/72956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}