Recommended 2 way firewalls for 64 bit W 7 ?

[Ophelia]

Don't be angry. I've just moved to Windows 7 from XP where the firewall
was just one way.


There are a million new things to research when moving to a new OS
including not knowing where to look for setting panels, etc. and one has
to sometimes go with what one knows from the past. I had no way to know
that Windows decided to change their built in firewall to make it go both
ways.

Try to be helpful and put yourself in the other's place. We're not all W 7
gurus or we would not be asking.

Amen!

 

[GreyCloud]

Uhmmm ... you plonked yourself

These are two different entities. One is forging the other one.

 

[Thip]

Thank you very much.
Will probably do the same.
Jeff

Do me a favor and let me know how it works for you. I don't want to continue
to recommend it if I'm the only one not having problems.

 

[Charles Tomaras]

Don't be angry. I've just moved to Windows 7 from XP where the firewall
was just one way.


There are a million new things to research when moving to a new OS
including not knowing where to look for setting panels, etc. and one has
to sometimes go with what one knows from the past. I had no way to know
that Windows decided to change their built in firewall to make it go both
ways.

Try to be helpful and put yourself in the other's place. We're not all W 7
gurus or we would not be asking.

Jumping from XP to Windows 7 I would give this one piece of navigational
advice. If you can't find something, just type the name of it in the search
box and 9 times out of 10 you will find it immediately. Terms like icon
size, control panel, fonts etc.

 

[Ophelia]

Jumping from XP to Windows 7 I would give this one piece of navigational
advice. If you can't find something, just type the name of it in the
search box and 9 times out of 10 you will find it immediately. Terms like
icon size, control panel, fonts etc.

Hmm thanks for that. I did exactly that, XP to Windows 7. I shall remember
that

 

[Thip]

Into my bozo bin. Jeff, may I suggest you do the same?

Aren't bozo bins wonderful?

 

[Thip]

Into my bozo bin. Jeff, may I suggest you do the same?

Aren't bozo bins wonderful?

 

[Seth]

Do me a favor and let me know how it works for you. I don't want to
continue to recommend it if I'm the only one not having problems.

Well I'm using it and it's what we're configuring for the 140,000 machines
at my firm.

 

[Charles Tomaras]

Well I'm using it and it's what we're configuring for the 140,000 machines
at my firm.

What is the OS breakdown for those 140,000 machines out of curiosity? A
mixture of things or all upgraded / new to Windows 7?

 

[Seth]

What is the OS breakdown for those 140,000 machines out of curiosity? A
mixture of things or all upgraded / new to Windows 7?

When done it will be all 140,000 at Windows 7. Right now Zero "production"
clients are on Win7.

It will be all fresh builds.
A) I don't believe in upgrades.
B) Coming from XP ( we were in the beta stages of our in house Vista client
when the decision was finally made to stick with XP and upgrade to SP3, IE7,
Office 2007 and Notes 8.0.2.)

 

[Charles Tomaras]

When done it will be all 140,000 at Windows 7. Right now Zero
"production" clients are on Win7.

It will be all fresh builds.
A) I don't believe in upgrades.
B) Coming from XP ( we were in the beta stages of our in house Vista
client when the decision was finally made to stick with XP and upgrade to
SP3, IE7, Office 2007 and Notes 8.0.2.)

Big project. Thanks for the info....I'm gonna hold onto my MS Stock for now!

 

[Jeff]

First, you do NOT need incoming and outgoing but if you believe
you do look here:

http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-7/515977-how-configure-windows-firewall-windows-7-a.html

And here:

http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html

The free version is all you'll need.

Thank you
Jeff

 

[Jeff]

Jumping from XP to Windows 7 I would give this one piece of navigational
advice. If you can't find something, just type the name of it in the search
box and 9 times out of 10 you will find it immediately. Terms like icon
size, control panel, fonts etc.

Yes I've been discovering that. I was very worried moving to W 7 after
knowing all the ins and outs of XP but I'm starting to really like W 7
and this is one of its nice features. Saves having to have a lot of
shortcuts. (Having 6 GB of Ram also helps!)
Thanks, Jeff

 

[Conor]

You are a borderline psychopath.
Welcome to my kill file.

Assuming you have the brains to work out how to use it.