Windows firewall disabled...or not??

I have Privatefirewall installed and since this morning at reboot,a pop up appear from Windows FW although it's disabled.What i'm missing here

 

I usually check WFW in services. I have it disabled now.

 

Thanks.To be honest,it's odd i have to do this now since i never stopped and disabled that service and never had any pop-ups...

 

WFW service can be disabled when you install a third party FW.

I usually use non-MS FW, and once found that I have WFW on alongside a third party FW, since then I have WFW disabled. When I want WFW on I make it thru services.

 

IMHO irrespective to Win popup, WFW must be off when PFW is on.

 

I think PrivateFW enables WindowsFW by default, isn't it?

 

Exactly this thing are "saying" my screenshots and that's why my confusion.WindowsFW is disabled still got pop-ups.

Maybe do you mean disables,because this is what Privatefirewall does at installation.

 

Actually any third party FW must disable WFW. When you uninstall 3pFW then WFW must be enabled. So if you have PFW and Windows popups that WFW is off as an issue - it must be Win bug. I see it in this way.

 

Watch out, some 3rd party firewalls requires the Microsoft firewall service to be ON while the windows firewall itself to be OFF. Normally this is the default setup to avoid problems.

 

So,it's not such a wise move to disable Windows FW service?

 

I've had this windows firewall notification problem on Comodo firewall V6 on a few occasions... I've disabled the windows firewall after reading through this thread and checked afterwards at Shields Up...All seems to be well.

 

Hmm, my outpost disables the windows firewall and links in to the security centre to stop the red notifications. it does NOT disable the firewall service and does not reccommend doing so. apparently the service is in part responsible for allowing the 3rd party firewall service to communicate that it is there to the security centre.

you might want to turn the service back on auto and turn off the firewall via control panel.

 

Actually, after I rebooted my system the WFW was re-enabled (services) to automatic, I assume that the Comodo fw did this as part of its own protection.

 

After reading the 2 posts advice,i re-enabled Windows FW service.

 

Yeap... Don't know for private firewall but in general is not needed or desirable to disable it...

 

Yeah, that's interesting question: if you have a 3-d party FW than obviously Win FW must be off, but what about the Win FW service?

Now I made Win FW service to automatic and disabled the Win FW. I hope it's the right way.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766337(v=ws.10).aspx

 

Thank you, I needed such confirmation.