Policy

Windows Defender Firewall: Prohibit notifications

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

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ClassComputer
CategoryWindows Defender Firewall > Standard Profile
Supported onAt least Windows XP Professional with SP2

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

Prevents Windows Defender Firewall from displaying notifications to the user when a program requests that Windows Defender Firewall add the program to the program exceptions list. If you enable this policy setting, Windows Defender Firewall prevents the display of these notifications. If you disable this policy setting, Windows Defender Firewall allows the display of these notifications. In the Windows Defender Firewall component of Control Panel, the "Notify me when Windows Defender Firewall blocks a new program" check box is selected and administrators cannot clear it. If you do not configure this policy setting, Windows Defender Firewall behaves as if the policy setting were disabled, except that in the Windows Defender Firewall component of Control Panel, the "Notify me when Windows Defender Firewall blocks a new program" check box is selected by default, and administrators can change it.

Internal name
WF_Notifications_Name_2
Policy ID
52cfd73f3445
Elements
0

Registry values

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Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile\DisableNotificationsREG_DWORD
1
0

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