Open a Port in Windows 7’s Firewall

In this example I’m going to allow all traffic requesting port 80 (the default HTTP “web” port) through.

Open a Port in Windows 7’s Firewall

1. Open Control Panel from the Start menu.
2. Select Windows Firewall.

   

   Note: If Windows Firewall is not available, change View by to Large icons at the top right of the Control Panel window.

3. Select Advanced settings in the left column of the Windows Firewall window.

   

4. Select Inbound Rules in the left column of the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window.

   

   Note: You can prevent outbound traffic by selecting Outbound Rules.

5. Select New Rule in the right column.

   

6. Select Port in the New Inbound Rule Wizard and then click Next.

   

7. Select which protocol this rule will apply to (TCP or UDP), select Specific local ports, type a port number (80), port numbers (80,81), or a range of port numbers (5000-5010) and then click Next.

   

8. Select Allow the connection and then click Next.

   

9. Select when this rule applies (check all of them for the port to always stay open) and then click Next.

   

10. Give this rule a name and then click Finish to add the new rule.

    

The port is now open and ready to be used.

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6 Responses to “Open a Port in Windows 7’s Firewall”

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1. Roder says:

   September 22, 2009 at 9:22 am

   Thanks alot!

   Reply
2. Valdez says:

   November 22, 2009 at 5:53 pm

   Yes, Thanks Much!! After a couple of hours of trying to get this working, I found your site and was working w/in minutes!

   Reply
3. idunoleh says:

   November 28, 2009 at 4:42 am

   im still puzzled of opening port for utorrent. we need both to crea8 both TCP and UDP? where about outbound do we need to crea8?

   Reply
4. loyal says:

   December 21, 2009 at 7:53 am

   I tried this solution and I still get the same error message stating that ports 2077 and 2078 need to be opened or they are blocked by firewall. I even xompletely turned off my firewall after adding and ut still doesn’t work

   Reply
5. Alex says:

   December 25, 2009 at 6:24 pm

   THX M8 U SAVED ME :)

   Reply
6. HelloKitty says:

   February 5, 2010 at 9:11 pm

   I followed the rules on how to Open a Port in Windows 7’s Firewall above and I wanted to give a test to see if it works and still I get this:

   Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
   Request timed out.
   Request timed out.
   Request timed out.
   Request timed out.

   Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
   Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

   This should have work but apparently it doesn’t. So why am I losing packets? It seems that it cannot find back to my computer. Why? I would appreciate some help. Thanks

   Reply