How do I disable the Windows Firewall service?

A step by step guide to disable the Windows Firewall server.

John Savill

October 18, 2010

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Don't. Disabling the Windows Firewall service isn't supported by Microsoft. Disabling it will not only stop the firewall, it will also break IPsec, connection security rules, and many other network-based security features.

Instead of doing anything to the firewall service (mpssvc), you can use netsh to turn off the firewall for all profiles without stopping the actual service:

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

To turn it back on, use

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state on

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