[superstar]

Hi I've installed quite a few programs along the years that had to be excepted by windows xp's firewall in order to work. & well I recently uninstalled some programs in the past few months that I no longer use. So the point is I've noticed that there are a lot of items which I no longer use still left in the exceptions list for windows xp's firewall [as seen below]. I thought these exceptions would be automatically cleared when programs are uninstalled. So my question is how do I get any unneeded exceptions off of his list safely?

I assume I would just have to click on an item in the list and press delete??? I'd just like to confirm so I don't ruin my firewall or programs. By the way what would happen if I take off any of the wrong items by accident since I don't know what some belong to?



- Thank You

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I assume I would just have to click on an item in the list and press delete??? I'd just like to confirm so I don't ruin my firewall or programs. By the way what would happen if I take off any of the wrong items by accident since I don't know what some belong to?

You asume correctly, unchecking or clicking delete should do the trick. No risc of damaging your computer, only perhaps deleting something that needs eception afterall

Make sure it's 100% safe to delete it out of the list of exceptions and you'll be A OK .

[Dellica]

I assume I would just have to click on an item in the list and press delete??? I'd just like to confirm so I don't ruin my firewall or programs. By the way what would happen if I take off any of the wrong items by accident since I don't know what some belong to?

You asume correctly, unchecking or clicking delete should do the trick. No risc of damaging your computer, only perhaps deleting something that needs eception afterall

Make sure it's 100% safe to delete it out of the list of exceptions and you'll be A OK .

[superstar]

Thank you very much! I just deleted some old stuff. Wow I didn't even realize all the gunk that was there.

[Dellica]

Anytime, glad we could help!