3 ways to turn off Windows 10 firewall

Windows Firewall is responsible for ensuring the safety of your Windows computer. It will filter and prevent malicious data streams from attacking your computer. However, sometimes you still need to turn off the firewall to perform certain functions. The 3 ways to turn off the Win 10 firewall below will help you in such situations.

Table of Contents of the Article

• Method 1: Turn off firewall on Windows 10 using Control Panel
• Method 2: How to turn off Windows 10 firewall using Windows Security
• Method 3: Turn off Windows 10 firewall with command

Method 1: Turn off firewall on Windows 10 using Control Panel

In fact, this method can still be applied to Windows 11, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The steps are as follows:

Step 1 : Press the Win button on the keyboard or click the Start button to open the Start Menu, then type Control Panel to search and open the control panel.

Step 2 : Click on System and Security . If you don't see System and Security, click on the drop-down menu at View by and select Category to see it.

Step 3 : Click Windows Defender Firewall (or Windows Firewall).

Step 4 : Click Turn Windows Firewall on or off in the left sidebar (Tip: You can also access the firewall settings screen by executing the control firewall.cpl command in CMD or Run).

Step 5 : Here, click to select Turn off Windows Firewall (not recommended) to turn off the firewall on Windows 10. You can turn off the firewall for both private and public networks or just turn it off for one network depending on your needs.

Step 6 : Click OK to save settings.

Method 2: How to turn off Windows 10 firewall using Windows Security

Basically this method can be used for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Step 1 : Press the Win button on the keyboard or click the Start button to open the Start Menu, then type Windows Security to search and open Windows protection software.

Step 2 : Click on Firewall & network protection.

Step 3 : Click on each network you want to disable the firewall for among the three networks Domain network, Private network and Public network or click on all three if you want to disable them all.

Step 4 : After clicking on the network you want to turn off, turn the switch in the Microsoft Defender Firewall section from On to Off , repeat for all three networks if you want to turn off all three.

So you have turned off the firewall on Windows 10. To turn the firewall back on, just do from step 1, to step 4 select On instead of Off.

Method 3: Turn off Windows 10 firewall with command

Those of you who are familiar with cmd and commands or those of you who like to feel like a hacker can use the command to turn off the firewall on Windows 10. Here's how:

Step 1 : Press the Win button on the keyboard or click the Start button to open the Start Menu , then type cmd to search and open the Command Prompt window . Remember to open it as admin.

Step 2 : To turn off the firewall, enter the following command into Command Prompt and press Enter:

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

Step 3 : If you want to reactivate, just enter the following command into Command Prompt and press Enter:

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state on

Some other commands to turn on and off the firewall on Win 10 that you may need:

• netsh advfirewall set currentprofile state off - Turns off firewall for current user
• netsh advfirewall set currentprofile state on - Turn on firewall for current user
• netsh advfirewall set domainprofile state off - Turn off firewall on Domain network
• netsh advfirewall set domainprofile state on - Turn on firewall on Domain network
• netsh advfirewall set publicprofile state off - Turn off firewall on Public network
• netsh advfirewall set publicprofile state on - Enable firewall on Public network
• netsh advfirewall set privateprofile state off - Turn off firewall on Private network
• netsh advfirewall set privateprofile state on - Enable firewall on Private network

Good luck!