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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
When you connect to a new router (as he did) Win 7 detects it and asks you what network type it is. If you screw up and say it's a public network (easy to do in a rush as I've been stupid enough to do it myself which is why I remembered it can cause problems but not exactly what at the time I suggested checking) then by default it will block the browsers from accessing the internet as you can see in the first picture where it isn't allowing Firefox access.
It wasn't his problem and the symptoms as it happened didn't match but saying the Windows firewall is only applicable to inbound connects is plain wrong.
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No it doesn't, anything you click on that page only affects inbound connections, and will never block a web browser. As I've said, it's impossible to accidentally block outbound connections, the *only* way to do it is a 15 step advanced manual rule setup.
The first picture only shows inbound connections being blocked. It has no effect on your web browsing.