Windows 10: Win11 Firewall rules changing by themselves, from nonchecked, to non-existant rule, etc.

I'm using Windows 11 and the firewall rules have been changing by themselve often. I can leave everything as it is, check back an hour later and privately checked without public rules go to public. If i install some software such as steam especially the steam client and its helepr automatically go to public. I dont have steam installed now, and have been monitoring the issue. Now I a new item which is greyed out is set to private and public rules checked. Before this , this item did not exist, as there were no public rules checked at all in the list. Any help or suggestions would be ni

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How to modify existing firewall rule from CMD

Hello,

I would like to modify firewall rule in CMD to have unblocked RDP.

I have found this command somewhere:

but it adds a new rule "Open Remote Desktop". I want to modify an existing, which is "Remotedesktop". How to do this from Command Line? I want also know how to reverse the rule to block RDP - in CMD as well. Thank you in advance.

 

Windows Firewall: Doesn't show blocking rules

Hello!

Today I've blocked all connections of a program by creating a outbound rule in Windows Firewall. However, I now wish to remove it. The problem: I can't find that newly created rule anywhere in the list. The rule does take an effect, since deactivating the
Firewall lets the program run properly. I can only see rules in the list that "allow" stuff, but not those who block things.

What I have tried so far:

- All filters set to "Show all" within the Firewall

- Created the same rule again, doesn't show up

- Created a rule that allows the program, shows up

Any solutions?

 

firewall rule to block addresses NOT on an IP list?


I am just starting to learn the Windows Firewall (working on both Windows 7 and 10) and I'm not impressed with the inflexibility of its rules. I would like to know if


1. Is there is a way to do what I want with Windows Firewall?
2. Is there is a third-party firewall that would do it?


What I want to do is create a rule that blocks outgoing connections, for program X, that are to a destination **NOT** in an IP list.


Windows Firewall is not very flexible in how you specify IP list rules. When you give an IP list, your rule will match that list... you can't say "trigger the rule for non-matching IP addresses." Therefore to allow outgoing connections to a list, you have to


1. Change the entire firewall policy to block outgoing connections by default so that you can create an "allow rule" matching your list. This will mess up the rest of your programs.


2. Somehow combine a block rule and allow rule. Create a block rule for most traffic, with the "allow" rule overriding it when appropriate. However, this doesn't appear to be possible in general. It **may** be possible for connections that use IPSec, I'm not sure. And I'm not sure if I can use IPSec in my application.

And is there a third-party firewall that can do it? Most 3rd-party firewalls are LESS sophisticated than Windows Firewall, because the use case they are addressing is providing an interface that doesn't require much comprehension. I need one that's actually MORE sophisticated than Windows Firewall.