{"id":14486,"date":"2019-06-12T00:31:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2019-06-12T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:32:34","slug":"reset-firewall-settings-to-default-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/reset-firewall-settings-to-default-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Reset Firewall Settings to Default in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mess up the firewall settings accidentally? Need to delete all the custom firewall rules to troubleshoot your network connectivity issue? In this tutorial we’ll show you 5 ways to reset \/ restore firewall settings to default in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Reset Firewall Settings to Default via Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Control Panel<\/a> and change the View by<\/strong> option from Category<\/strong> to Large icons<\/strong>. Click on Windows Defender Firewall<\/strong>.\n

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  2. Click on the Restore defaults<\/strong> link on the left side.\n

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  3. Click on the Restore defaults<\/strong> button.\n

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  4. When the confirmation dialog box appears, click Yes<\/strong> and your Windows firewall settings will be restored to default immediately.\n

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    Method 2: Reset Firewall Settings to Default via Windows Defender<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open the Windows Defender app<\/a> and select Firewall & network protection<\/strong> on the left menu bar. Next, click the “Restore firewalls to default<\/strong>” option on the right side.\n

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    2. Click on the Restore defaults<\/strong> button.\n

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    3. You will be asked for confirmation once again. Click Yes<\/strong> to reset all Windows Firewall settings.
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      Method 3: Reset Firewall Settings to Default via Windows Firewall with Advanced Security<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box, type wf.msc<\/strong> and hit Enter to open the “Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security” console.\n

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      2. Right-click on the top item “Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security on Local Computer<\/em>” in the left pane and select “Restore Default Policy<\/strong>“.\n

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      3. Click Yes<\/strong> when you see the following confirmation dialog box.\n

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      4. All the firewall rules are now reset to their initial values, as they were when you first installed Windows 10.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Method 4: Reset Firewall Settings to Default via Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Open the Command Prompt as administrator<\/a>, and type this command:
          \nnetsh advfirewall reset<\/code><\/p>\n

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        2. Once pressing Enter, all the firewall settings are now reset to their default values.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Method 5: Reset Firewall Settings to Default via Windows PowerShell<\/strong><\/p>\n

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          1. Open Windows PowerShell as administrator<\/a>, and run the following command:
            \n(New-Object -ComObject HNetCfg.FwPolicy2).RestoreLocalFirewallDefaults()<\/code><\/p>\n

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          2. Your Firewall rules will be restored to defaults in no time, without any additional confirmation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Mess up the firewall settings accidentally? Need to delete all the custom firewall rules to troubleshoot your network connectivity issue? In this tutorial we’ll show you 5 ways to reset \/ restore firewall settings to default in Windows 10. Method 1: Reset Firewall Settings to Default via Control Panel Open the Control Panel and change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4241,4240,4242],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-delete-windows-firewall-rules","tag-reset-windows-firewall-settings","tag-windows-10-reset-firewall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14508,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions\/14508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}