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[Fred95]

Windows 7 starter
W7FW (free - 4.1.14.73)


Ive been running your firewall controller for a while now, and have just noticed that I cannot remove the Flash installers/un-installers from the programs list.

If I open the firewall and go to programs, listed is:

Adobe Flash Player installer/uninstaller - 10.2 r159
and
Adobe Flash Player installer/uninstaller - 10.3 r181

Both are marked as 'Enable All(Read only)'


If I try to delete them (Right-click and delete) it fails as 'could not be deleted'.
And if you double left click you are told 'Only Plus edition allows system applications access management'.


Question - how do I remove them? They are just used once when Flash is installed, I don't want or need them there all the time. I guess I'm going to get one listed at every flash update, which is not required (by me anyway).

Thanks

PS - I'm installing Flash plugin, by going to the adobe site, downloading the installer, and running it from my desktop. I install both flash's, the plugin for Firefox/Opera as well as the ActiveX version for IE. Not sure what one is being left in the firewall list.

[VistaFirewallControl]

>Both are marked as 'Enable All(Read only)'

The Free version limitation is inability to control network activity of system (located in Windows\*.*) applications. The applications are marked with “ReadOnly”


>Question - how do I remove them? They are just used once when Flash is installed, I don't want or need them there all the time. I guess I'm going to get one listed at every flash update, which is not required (by me anyway).

We do not see a problem of applications listing regardless of the applications usage frequency.

The system applications are beyond the control with the GUI.
The workaround is
- Close W7FC from TrayIcon/RightClick
- Stop Windows7FirewallService from services.msc (do NOT kill the process)
- using regedit delete the related key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\sphinx-soft\Vista-Wall\1.0\AppList. (use regedit 64-bit on 64 bit systems)
- start Windows7FirewallService from services.msc (do NOT start as a regular application)
- start W7FC (Windows7FirewallControl.exe) manually as a regular application

[Fred95]

VistaFirewallControl, thanks for the reply.

Hmmm, I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one.

Firewall control should be as simple as possible, I don't want to have to go editing the registry to remove unwanted or no longer required entries in the firewall list. And as Flash seems to be updated about every 4-5 weeks, by the end of the year I could have about 10-12 such entries.

I could understand (maybe) the free version not letting you configure 'system' things in it's list, after all its a free version and will possibly have some limitations I guess. But not letting you just delete them seems a bit too much for me.


Thanks.

[VistaFirewallControl]

The option to delete system applications with Free version will be available in the nearest build

[VistaFirewallControl]

Please try 4.1.18
http://vistafirewallcontrol.freeforums.org/post9.html#p9

[Fred95]

Many thanks for the reply and info.

I'll investigate/test later.

EDIT: - Whats the best way to upgrade? i.e. just download and install the beta over the top, or remove the original, D/L and then install the new?


Thank you

[VistaFirewallControl]

As you wish, on-the-top just retains the previous settings.

[control_freak]

Thank you for enabling this feature in updates.
Even though flash update was allowed, it would not update.
Now i can remove the entry and start afresh.

Great program. Thanks