Instructions on how to turn off the WIN8 firewall

WINDOWS8 official version of the operating system from the release date is also getting closer, many friends have been using WIN8 Consumer preview version, although with the official version may have some differences, but generally still similar, at present I found some Internet cafes in order to attract Internet users, Also installed WINDOWS8 Consumer Preview version of the operating system, for the WIN8 system can be said compared to the previous system has a qualitative improvement, in many aspects of the system has improved and enhanced, such as the WIN8 with the firewall function is more powerful, but installed anti-virus software, WIN8 Firewall is basically also chicken ribs, A lot of friends asked before how to shut down the WINDOWS8 system firewall, the following article will introduce the method.

How to close the WIN8 firewall? The following method:

⒈ First we press the computer keyboard win C combination shortcut, pop-up operation menu, will be seen on the right side of the pop-up option box, then we click "Settings", and then click "Control Panel" into the control Panel, the following figure:

WIN8 settings

WIN8 Control Panel Entrance

⒉) into the control Panel, we then click on "Windows Firewall" as shown in the following image:

WINDOWS8 Firewall Entrance

⒊ into the WIN8 firewall panel, we can click "Enable or Shut down Windows Firewall", this is the WIN8 Firewall control switch, close and open can operate here, the following figure:

Enable or turn off Win8 firewall settings

In addition WIN8 firewall features compared to the previous version of the WIN7 and XP system is much more powerful, WIN8 firewall support for private, public network firewall filtering settings. The following figure:

WIN8 Strong firewall function

In general, if the computer installed a high professional anti-virus software, the system with the firewall recommended to shut down, because anti-virus software with the firewall function, shut down the system firewall can save some system resources, improve system performance.