Today I’m gonna be explaining you guys how to block a program on your Windows Firewall I’m doing this on Windows 10 and I’m gonna be blocking and an explorer now this should be more or less the same on Windows 7 and 8 I’m not entirely sure but if it does work let us know in the comments section and I’ll thank you in advance for letting us know application management services I’m also blocking Internet Explorer just to give you guys a visual of Internet Explorer working beforehand and not working afterwards.
What Block a Program firewall?
Now the first thing we do on Windows 10 is go to the search bar and type into fire walk now this should pop up Windows Firewall just click that now on the left hand side come down and you’ll see at Advanced Settings click that and this window should open on the left hand side you’ll see inbound rules and outbound rules first we want to go to inbound rules click that on the right-hand side under actions click new rule so we’re blocking a program today so make sure program selected and click Next now we need to find where the actual application is located not the shortcut the actual application so in order to find that if you’re if you have a shortcut on your desktop just go to that right click it go down properties make sure in the properties windows shortcut is selected and come down and look for target.
Now you’ll see this little URL here this little link copy that and paste that into this box and you should be good from here just click Next but if you don’t have a shortcut on your desktop to find it you actually have to click the Browse and find where the program the application is located now unless you install it in custom location it should be in the C Drive the local C Drive either under Program Files or Program Files x86 the one I’m looking for is under x86 I click that I find an explorer now when I open the Internet or file I’ll see that there are other applications here which you might run into this problem just to make sure you’re opening the right one or you’re gonna be blocking the right one right-click it and select open and the program opens as normal then that’s the right one if it doesn’t then it’s the wrong one so I have where I want selected I’m going to click that and I’m gonna click Next now we’re gonna decide what to do either allow it or block it now I want to block this so at the bottom here we come to block connection and click Next now in this next window we need to decide where we’re going to block it.
How does Block a Program with Windows Firewall work?
It’s safe to say that we’re probably gonna want to block it on everything so make sure all these are selected now in this next window we’re going to add the name of the block so I recommend just using the program’s name and adding a little something extra in the end and capitals like block so in case you have to delete it it’s easy to spot now come back to this window click outbound rules and we’re basically going to do the same thing I’m going to run through a really fast so outbound new roll program next browse Internet Explorer open next block the connection next domain private public selected selected next name ie block finish now let’s see if it worked as we can see Internet Explorer does not work anymore it can’t connect to the internet so to undo that we just come back to the same place find our block delete it go to the inbound and outbound which everyone you didn’t delete it and it should work again so that’s how you block a program on your Windows 10 firewall it should be more or less the same on windows 7 & 8.
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