
In today's fast-paced technological world, you need to know how to protect your work-related information from malicious hackers and viruses. Windows 10 has a security feature called "Network and firewall protection" Protect your network system from hackers and viruses. It works as a defender against unauthorized software and systems to be installed or used on our device.
Some applications or software are not allowed by the firewall configuration policy. If users install such an application, they manually allow the application or software to run on the device in the firewall settings. Sometimes the user can make so many changes to the firewall settings that it gives access to network problems and problems accessing and running some applications, printing, file sharing, email or the like.
Have you encountered the same problem on your Windows 10 device? Read this article to reset firewall settings to default values on Windows 10 device so user can work with network system faster.
Methods for restoring the default firewall settings
You can reset or reset the Windows firewall settings to their default values using one of four methods.
Method 1. Reset Windows Firewall to default settings using Control Panel
Step 1. Find Control Panel in the Windows search box and open it.
Step 2. Click Security system from the control panel menu.
Step 3. Now in the right menu, click Windows Firewall Defender.
Step 4. In the left menu, click “Option to restore default values'.
Step 5. Now a dialog box will appear showing the changes that will be made after the reset. Click 'Yup' to continue to reset the firewall settings to their default values. You will be asked to confirm again to restore.
Method 2: Reset Windows Firewall to default settings using Windows settings
Step 1. Go to settings from the Windows menu.
Step 2. Scroll down and open the file "Update and security" setup menu option.
Step 3. In the left menu, click "Windows Security" option and then in the menu on the right, click "Network and firewall protection" option.
Step 4. Now another box will appear on the screen where you need to click "Reset firewall to default values".
Step 5. You will be asked to confirm the reset. Click 'Yup' and the firewall settings will be reset to their default values.
Method 3: Reset Windows Firewall settings to default values using command prompt
Step 1. First, find Symbol of the system then right-click on the app and tap 'run as administrator'.
Step 2. Now you will see a box, type this command: restart netsh advfirewall.
Step 3. Click Enter key on the keyboard and the firewall settings will be reset to their default values.
Method 4: Reset Windows Firewall to default settings using PowerShell
Step 1. Find Shell Power in the search box, then right-click the app and tap 'run as administrator'.
Step 2. Then a box will appear where you type the command:
(New-Object-ComObject HNetCfg.FwPolicy2).RestoreLocalFirewallDefaults()
Step 3. Press the button Enter key on the keyboard and set it aside for a while to allow Windows to restore the default settings