Turning off Windows firewall using the command line

Tom DeMeulenaere Tuesday, January 09, 2018


1)    Open an elevated command prompt
2)    Windows 7
a.     sc stop mpssvc
3)    Windows XP

a.     sc stop sharedaccess
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