Windows Firewall Control 6.29.0.0

Windows Firewall Control is a nifty little application which extends the functionality of the Windows Firewall. Also it 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.

It is free to use. Registered users will get the advantage of learning mode which provides notifications for outgoing blocked connections.

Windows Firewall Control doesn’t filter any packets and does not block or allow any connection. It offers four filtering modes. You can switch them with just a mouse click:

Low Filtering. Outgoing connections that do not match a rule are allowed. You can block the programs you do not want to initiate outgoing connections.
Medium Filtering. Outgoing connections that do not match a rule are blocked. Only programs you allow can initiate outgoing connections.
High Filtering. All outgoing connections are blocked. This setting blocks all attempts to connect to and from your computer.
No Filtering. Windows Firewall is turned off. Avoid using this setting unless you have another firewall running on your computer.

Windows Firewall Control Features:

• Notifications of outbound blocked connections.
• Learning mode that automatically allows digitally signed programs.
• Intuitive user interface which is easy accessible through a system tray icon.
• Full support with standard user accounts. Elevated privileges required only at installation.
• Disable the ability of other programs to tamper Windows Firewall rules and state.
• Integrated support of creating, modifying and deleting Window Firewall rules.
• Multiple and easier ways of creating new rules in Windows Firewall.
• 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.
• Automatically display invalid rules for programs that do not exist any more.
• Possibility to find and display duplicate firewall rules.
• Merge multiple similar rules or duplicate existing ones.
• View recently allowed and blocked connections and create new rules from the Security log.
• Import and export of partial sets of rules.
• Protection to unauthorized uninstallation.
• Possibility to restore previous settings at uninstallation.
• Supports global hot keys and various shortcut keys.
• And many, many more.

Registered Users Features:

• Learning Mode which provides notifications for blocked outgoing connections.
• Search for executable files in a user defined folder and create new rules for the selected ones from the result list.

Changes in Windows Firewall Control 6.29.0.0 (2026-03-09):

• Fixed: Learning Mode is automatically enabled in version WFC 6.28 if there is no notification exception defined.

Changes in Windows Firewall Control 6.28.0.0 (2026-03-09):

• Fixed: An attacker could exploit ‘Start automatically at user logon’ to execute at user logon another software than wfcUI.exe.
• Fixed: Time based temporary rules are deleted at WFC restart while they should be deleted when they expire.
• Fixed: In Properties dialog when browsing for a file, the parent folder should go up recursively until an existing folder is found instead of defaulting to Desktop folder.
• Fixed: Some pages are not correctly opened when using F1 key to open contextual help from the online user guide PDF.
• Fixed: The system tray icon profile does not update the profile icon if is set from outside of WFC.
• Fixed: Customizing rule is enabled in non-elevated notification even if the changes are not saved.
• Improved: Revert profile works only if the profile is changed from WFC and does not work if wfcUI.exe process is stopped. Revert profile is now enforced by the service and applied by the service even if the profile is changed from outside of WFC.
• Improved: In the notification dialog there is only one Request elevation button now. It is displayed instead of the ‘Block for now and ask me later’ button when the process is not elevated.

Changes in Windows Firewall Control 6.26.0.0 (2026-02-25):

• New: Added global hotkey support for toggling between Request elevation and Remove elevation.

Changes in Windows Firewall Control 6.25.0.0 (2026-02-25):

• New: Added support to ‘Remove elevation’. This will restart the tray process.
• Improved: Added support to ‘Request elevation’ from the notification dialog. Existing notifications will be preserved and restored when elevated process is started.
• Improved: Added a more helpful message in case the check for updates does not work.
• Fixed: Lock functionality should be available only if the software runs elevated.
• Fixed: A low-privilege user can exploit a named pipe vulnerability to turn Windows Firewall off or to clear the Security Event log. Starting with this version, only reading data is allowed without elevation. Any action that requires changes to Windows Firewall state, firewall rules, settings, requires to elevate the tray app process and confirming the UAC prompt. This applies to all user account types.
• Fixed: Learning Mode can be enabled from a standard user account.
• Fixed: ‘Request elevation’ context menu item does not update when changing the language.
• Fixed: Auditing settings regarding allowed and blocked connections are not preserved after an update.
• New: Added Vietnamese language support.

Homepage – https://www.binisoft.org

System Requirements

• Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.8.
• Compatible with all x86 and x64 versions of Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Server 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012.
• Windows Firewall service is required to be enabled for Windows Firewall Control to run.
• DNS Client service is required to be enabled for the notifications to work properly.

Size: 3.42  MB

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