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Name: tom09
Date: October 4, 2009 at 07:25:57 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: Firewalls
Comment:

I WAS WONDERING WEATHER I CAN TURN OFF MY WINDOWS FIREWALL WITHOUT AN ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD, IF SO.. HOW?



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Response Number 1
Name: capt
Date: October 4, 2009 at 18:21:33 Pacific
Reply:

Enter the control panel and select windows firewall and turn it off.


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Response Number 2
Name: tom09
Date: October 5, 2009 at 10:10:16 Pacific
Reply:

i knew that, but you have ti be a computer admin to change it.


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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser
Date: October 5, 2009 at 12:01:52 Pacific
Reply:

Why can't you elevate yourself to an Admin account?

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 4
Name: SongCloud
Date: October 16, 2009 at 10:14:13 Pacific
Reply:

Why do you want to turn it off to begin with? If you have another firewall solution, it should turn off Windows Firewall itself by default. I would not recommend browsing without a firewall, even the crappy one built into windows.


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