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Windows Vista has three level of firewall profile: Domain Profile, Private Profile and Public Profile. All firewall is on by default. If we want to turn off firewall for our own user, we may go to Windows Vista System Administraion -> Firewall and Advanced Security Center. We see the configuration is complicated. There are tons of rules and policies for inbound and outbound traffic. Is there any simple way to turn on or turn off the firewall for our own user? Of course, the default firewall is turn on. The answer is YES.

We can go to Control Panel -> User Account. We need to click on “Turn User Account Control on or off”.

Then, we can enable/disable User Account Control. System asks to restart. After restart, we can see the firewall policy is applied or disabled.

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