#Windows firewall control windows 7 update#

Or create a shortcut to a task that runs on demand on your desktop. You could create a task that automatically enables svchost out each month, and one for every day for defender updates (for 5-10 minutes) or just do it manually. Microsoft releases windows updates every second Tuesday of each month give or take 24 hours or so. The maker of 'Windows Firewall Control' says ' On Windows 7 you could create service based rules for svchost.exe, but not on Windows 10' Windows firewall has regressed and does not perform the functions it offers, blocking individual services under the umbrella of the svchost. Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)ĭo I need to allow svchost TCP (remote ports: 80, 443) and svchost UDP (remote port: 53) and then manually create new blocking rules for each of the other svchost services (basically inverting what I've tried)?.The svchost services that I allowed in this attempt were: On another attempt to reduce connected svchost services, I've created different rules for specific svchost services (while disabling the generic svchost rules stated above), but Windows updates do not work (my allowed programs work, though). I want to reduce the number of svhost services that are allowed to the minimum.

#Windows firewall control windows 7 update#

With my current configuration, Windows is able to update successfully, but all svchost services (almost 200) are able to connect to the internet.

The programs that I want connected to the internet are allowed.svchost TCP (remote ports: 80, 443) and svchost UDP (remote port: 53): allowed.Limit which svchost services are allowed through.