Windows 10 Windows Firewall keeps asking for permissions

eXtremeDevil

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This happens every time I reboot. Windows Firewall asks me for letting an app through. I have granted the access before, but WF doesn't seem to remember. Also, the path is very strange:



What may be happening? Thanks!
 
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I figured it out. The HDD i was ussing for B drive was on SATA 0, so it was disk 0 on Windows, and C drive was disk 4 (yes, I have several HDD hehe). I changed the cables so now B is disk 4 and C is disk 0 and now it boots correctly, I mean, WF is no longer up, ESET takes the place.

What I fail to understand is the relation between firewalls and C not being the first physical disk, or maybe the problem was having a B drive on disk 0.

Is Windows that weird sometimes??
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That shouldn't really matter, Windows dynamically keeps track of the disks and the Letter assignment is simply a logical assignment and the letter to physical is maintained as symbolic links
 
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That's what I'm taking about, what is wrong in there to mix up drives, satas and firewalls?? Because when I changed B to A the path was A:0\...
 
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That's because Windows would of updated the symlink. You can see them with WinObj from sysinternals.
 
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They will be under device harddisk# and GLOBAL?? you want to select File > Run As Administrator since some of the info won't show otherwise
 
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