Windows Firewall Control provides quick access to Windows Firewall settings



From MajorGeeks:

Windows Firewall Control is a nifty little application which extends the functionality of the Windows Firewall and provides quick access to the most frequent options of Windows Firewall. 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. This is the best tool to manage the native firewall from Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Features:

Intuitive and easy accessible interface in the system tray.
Full support with standard user accounts. Elevated privileges are required only at installation.
Create temporary rules which are automatically deleted when they expire or on program restart.
Disable the ability of other programs to add Windows Firewall rules.
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 and Windows Firewall.
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 logs: inbound and outbound.
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.
And many more. Just try it out.

Change Info:
- Fixed: The Location check boxes and Direction radio buttons are set only for the
first notification from the notification dialog. Any other notifications from the
queue don't have these properties set.
- Improved: When exporting a full or a partial policy, the default path is always
the root folder. Now, the last path used is saved and reused on opening the file
browser dialog.
- Improved: Added better exception handling.

Limitations:
Requires Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.0

  Windows Firewall Control 4.0.7.2