How to Allow an App to Communicate Over the Network on Windows 10 [Tutorial]
80How to Allow an App to Communicate Over the Network on Windows 10 [Tutorial]
When you have a firewall active on your Windows 10 laptop, you can allow certain programs to communicate through that firewall. For example, you might want to allow live apps such as Weather or Video to send information or content to your computer.
The Windows Firewall acts like a fence between your computer and the rest of the Internet world, keeping unwanted network traffic from coming in, and keeping apps on your computer from communicating with the outside world. But every fence needs a gate, and that’s where exceptions come in.
When you allow an app to communicate through the firewall, it’s called adding an “exception”. For the most part, this all happens automatically. Windows creates exceptions for its own system services and apps, and when you install a new app that wants to communicate with the outside world, Windows will ask you if it’s allowed to do so.
Windows Firewall can help prevent bad actors or malicious software from gaining access to your PC through the Internet or a network.
Sometimes you may need to allow an app through Windows Firewall. When you allow an app to communicate though the firewall, it's called adding an exception or rule.
Usually this will happen automatically. Windows will automatically create exceptions for its own system services and apps. When you install a new app that wants to communicate through the firewall, Windows will prompt you to allow access for it to do so.
On Windows 10, the Remote Desktop app is the new remote access experience available through the Microsoft Store, which has been designed to make it easier for anyone to connect and control another computer over the local network or internet when you need to work remotely from home.
However, depending on how you need to connect, the new modern app is only a piece of the puzzle, as you must also configure additional settings and forward the correct ports on the router to successfully connect to other Windows 10 devices remotely.
In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to configure your computer and network to allow remote connections, and the steps to use the Remote Desktop app to start a remote session.
You may also want or need to create an exception manually to allow an app to communicate through the firewall.
This tutorial will show you different ways on how to manually remove or add apps to be allowed through Windows Firewall in Windows 10.
You must be signed in as an administrator to remove or add allowed apps through Windows Firewall.
Sometimes, though, you might want to create an exception manually to allow an app to communicate with the Internet. Perhaps it’s a app you originally said no to when Windows asked, but now you’ve changed your mind. Or maybe it’s an app that just didn’t get configured automatically for some reason. In those cases, you’ll need to head into Windows’ firewall settings.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).