Windows Firewall Control is a tool that provides fast access to the Windows Firewall settings and enhances functionality by letting you manage networking rules for each application. It mainly caters to experienced users, such as network administrators.
Once initialized, the app creates an icon in the system tray area and allows you to select the security profile, ranging from no filtering (turns off Windows Firewall) to high filtering mode (blocks all inbound and outbound connections).
When it comes to rules management, you can allow or deny access to any application, disable, delete it from the list or create a duplicate. The list shows names, groups, programs, locations, statuses, actions, directions, locate and remote ports, remote addresses, protocols, and services.
It is possible to sort items by status or direction (inbound, outbound, all, user-created), use a search function, view recently blocked programs, as well as switch to a simplified viewing mode for enabling and disabling program access, as well as for adding a new app to the list.
Windows Firewall Control features a control panel where you can make additional tweaks. You can integrate the tool into the Explorer context menu, set it to autorun at startup, disable other programs from adding firewall rules, activate global hotkeys for the control panel and rules management area, adjust the frame's hue, import and export rules, as well as access some Windows tools (Firewall with Advanced Security, Command Prompt, Event Viewer, Resource Monitor, Windows Registry).
The application has a fair reaction speed and works smoothly, without causing any problems to the OS. It quickly applies rule changes. All in all, Windows Firewall Control is an excellent utility for a better control over Windows Firewall options, especially when it comes to setting up rules for each program.

Limitations:
· Notification system is disabled in the unregistered version

What's New in This Release:
· New: Description column was added in the Manage Rules data grid and Local Addresses
· column into the Recently Blocked data grid. These two are initially hidden and must
· be enabled from the data grid header context menu.
· New: A new checkbox was added in the Uninstall dialog to let the user choose if he
· wants to disable Windows Firewall logging at uninstallation.
· New: A new confirmation dialog was added when the user presses on the Clear log
· button in Recently Blocked window.
· New: Columns size is now saved when the user closes Manage Rules window and then
· reloaded at reopening of the view. This applies to Manage Rules and Recently Blocked.
· Fixed: Temporary Rules that have an expiry time are deleted imediatelly after they
· are created on non en-US versions of Windows.
· Fixed: "WFC - Windows Store (svchost.exe)" rule does not work as expected when the
· service is set to WSService. The rule was updated to properly allow the connections to
· Windows Store on Windows 8 machines.
· Fixed: Notificati...