Windows firewall 'turn on' grayed out

In the security and maintenance, whenever I want to turn on windows firewall instead of McAfee the option to turn windows firewall on is grayed out, and McAfee doesn't have a turn off option. Disabling the McAfee's firewall from McAfee lists it as 'snooze' in the security and maintenance, and still doesn't give me the option to turn on windows firewall, so a fix would be helpful.

I want to do this because in windows firewall, I can block certain ports using the outbound rules, which I intend to use for a game. However, I can't seem to find any option to change the rules in McAfee for outgoing. It's frustrating, so if anybody knows, a guide to changing designated ports, or changing the outbound rules with McAfee, then that would work too.

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you cannot use the windows firewall if you have a third party version installed.

in order to turn on the windows firewall you need to uninstall McAfee.

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Last updated November 17, 2018 Views 6 Applies to: