Windows 10: Firewall and Network Protection tab options are all greyed out

Hi all,


Recently had my laptop fixed and returned, everything had gotten reset so I re-downloaded a game that required a UDP Port. The Port was being blocked by my firewall and so I opened up my firewall tab through the steps: (The red boxes in the pictures show that they cannot be clicked on.)


Windows Start Button > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Open Windows Security > Firewall & Network Protection.

From here, if I scrolled to the bottom, all the options are greyed out and cannot be clicked. It's the same in Control Panel too



Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Defender Firewall.

Here all the options on the left side column are bolded out and cannot be clicked either.




I have also tried disabling firewall in Services, by right-clicking Properties. However, that also failed.



I'm the Administrator on this laptop so it's really confusing as to why I cannot access it, I feel it might be because I have McAfee installed so it has just prevented me from accessing these options. But even so anything I've tried doesn't seem to allow me to change the settings, any help would be much appreciated.

:)

 

firewall

Hi Jackie,

For you to be able to get to your firewall, please follow the steps below:

• Go to start Button.
• Open Windows defender Security Center.
• Then go to Firewall & network protection.
• Then choose a network profile.

We'll look forward to your response.

 

Router Firewall?

Your router firewall lets you configure basic things like "Attack Protection", "DOS Protection" and service filtering with basic options for disabling HTTP, Telnet, FTP, TFTP, SNMP from external networks where you still get your internet from your ISP's gateway and every other communication from the WAN is blocked. You can also set up a service filter list in many cases. This is nifty. Though protection from the router isn't an alternative for even software firewalls, leave alone hardware ones. You will need a good software firewall such as free Zone Alarm / the firewall that comes with your security suite, if you're paranoid about security, else a properly updated Windows installation with the Windows Firewall is a good thing too.

 

Home network

Did you try this

Just a stab in the dark really...