Windows Firewall Control is a handy application that enables you to render Windows Firewall more functional, by accessing its most used options with ease.
It runs in the system tray and allows user to control the native firewall easily without having to waste time by navigating to the specific part of the firewall.
Here are some key features of "Windows Firewall Control":
- Just one small executable file. All features are packed in the same file.
- Intuitive and easy accessible interface in the system tray.
- Full support with standard user accounts.
- Possibility to create temporary rules.
- Disable the ability of other programs to add Windows Firewall ules.
- Multiple and easier ways of creating new rules in Windows Firewall.
- Full support of creating, modifying and deleting Window Firewall rules.
- Lock feature which can disable the access to the settings of the program.
- Shell integration into the right click context menu of the executable files.
- Search for invalid rules with the possibility to delete them.
- Search for executable files through folders and create new rules in seconds.
- View recently blocked connections and create new rules from the log.
- Choose if you want the program to start at user logon.
- Import and export the settings of the program.
- Protection to unauthorized uninstallation.
- Possibility to restore previous settings at uninstallation.
Requirements:
Limitations in the trial version:
- Notification system is disabled in the unregistered version
What's New in This Release:
- Fixed: The notification dialog hangs when multiple connection attempts are received for a specific program in a short period of time and the user chooses to create a new rule from the notification dialog
- Fixed: The validation for Program field in Properties dialog of a rule does not work
- Fixed: If the Rules Panel is open and the user uses the system tray context menu to open a different view, the window is focused but the view is not changed
- Fixed: In Windows 8, some group names are not recognized properly in Manage Rules data grid
- Fixed: The Properties dialog is opened if the user presses on the Cancel button with Enter key when the dialog to export the selected rules is canceled
- Improved: The text boxes available in Properties dialog of a rule support now maximum 4096 characters
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